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Word entry · 10 letters

receptacle

Best crossword clue

"Holder or container"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ɹɪˈsɛp.tə.kl̩/Part of speech nounSorted acceeelprtStarts with REnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A container used to hold or store things.

Used in a sentence

  • Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
  • It must be conceded that a common poor-house is by no means a fit receptacle for lunatics, under any consideration either of the cure of the patients, or the comfort of the other inmates.
  • […] and an anonymous scribe whose letter has been consigned to the receptacle most appropriate for such communications.

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