spoonnoun [ C ]
uk/spuːn/us/spuːn/A2 an object consisting of a round, hollow part and a handle, used for mixing, serving, and eating food
(used as a combining form):
a soup spoon
a teaspoon
also spoonful an amount held in a particular spoon:
a couple of spoons of sauce
More examples
- a dessert spoon
- I prized the lid off with a spoon.
- Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon.
- Where do these spoons belong?
- In the drawer was a selection of kitchen utensils - spoons, spatulas, knives, and whisks.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cutlery
- bread knife
- canteen
- cheese knife
- chopstick
- cutlery
- dessertspoon
- fish knife
- flatware
- fork
- place setting
- server
- serving
- setting
- silverware
- soup spoon
- steak knife
- tablespoon
- tableware
- teaspoon
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Measurements of volume: informal
spoonverb [ T + adv/prep ]
uk/spuːn/us/spuːn/to move something, especially food, using a spoon:
He spooned the mush into the baby's open mouth.
Spoon a little sauce over the fish.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Giving food to people & animals
- bottle-feed
- breastfeed
- fatted
- fatten sb/sth up
- fed
- feed
- feed sb/sth up
- force-feed
- nourish
- nurse
- nursing
- spoon-feed
- tube feeding