Synonyms for pottery
ˈpɒt ə ripot·te·ry

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1. potterynoun

   Synonyms:
   earthenware, ceramics, ceramic

2. potterynoun

   Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed

   The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.

   Synonyms:
   ceramic, ceramics, earthenware

3. potterynoun

   A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made

   I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.

   Synonyms:
   ceramics, earthenware, ceramic

4. potterynoun

   The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay

   Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.

   Synonyms:
   ceramics, earthenware, ceramic

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. pottery, claywarenoun

   ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln

   Synonyms:
   clayware

2. potterynoun

   the craft of making earthenware

   Synonyms:
   clayware

3. potterynoun

   a workshop where clayware is made

   Synonyms:
   clayware

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1. • Ceramic Ware
   • Trade
   • Workshop

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. potterynoun

   Synonyms:
   earthen ware, clay ware

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1. List of paraphrases for "pottery":

   tao, ceramic, porcelain, earthenware

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1. Ronit Lupu:

   This discovery represents a highly significant addition to our research of the city and the vicinity. Apart from the pottery, the fascinating flint finds attest to the livelihood of the local population in prehistoric times: Small sickle blades for harvesting cereal crops, chisels and polished axes for building, borers and awls, and even a bead made of carnelian (a gemstone), indicating that jewelry was either made or imported, the grinding tools, mortars and pestles, like the basalt bowl, attest to technological skills as well as to the kinds of crafts practiced in the local community.

2. Ronit Lupu:

   On completion of the excavations at Shu?fat, it is quite evident that there was a thriving settlement in the Jerusalem area in ancient times. Thousands of years later, the buildings uncovered are of a standard that would not fall short of Jerusalem’s architecture, this discovery represents a highly significant addition to our research of the city and the vicinity. Apart from the pottery, the fascinating flint finds attest to the livelihood of the local population in prehistoric times: Small sickle blades for harvesting cereal crops, chisels and polished axes for building, borers and awls, and even a bead made of carnelian (a gemstone), indicating that jewelry was either made or imported.

3. William Keegan:

   Why was this pottery so different from everything else we see? That had bothered me, it makes sense that Meillacoid pottery is associated with the Carib expansion.

4. Yonatan Adler:

   According to ancient Jewish ritual law, vessels made of pottery are easily made impure and must be broken, stone, on the other hand, was thought to be a material which can never become ritually impure, and as a result ancient Jews began to produce some of their everyday tableware from stone.

5. Carenza Lewis:

   This new research offers a novel solution to that evidential challenge, using finds of pottery – a highly durable indicator of human presence - as a proxy for population change in a manner that is both scalable and replicable, it shows that pottery use fell by almost a half in eastern England in the centuries immediately after the Black Death. This supports the emerging consensus that the population of England remained somewhere between 35 and 55 per cent below its pre-Black Death level well into the sixteenth century.