VITRINE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home

Synonyms:

case; display case; showcase; vitrine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("vitrine" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vitrine"):

trophy case (a case in which to display trophies)

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