Samovar Definition

sămə-vär
samovars
noun
A metal urn with a spigot and an internal tube for heating water in making tea: used esp. in Russia.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Samovar

Noun

Singular:
samovar
Plural:
samovars

Origin of Samovar

  • From Russian самовар (samovár, “self-boiler"); from само (samo, “self") + варить (varitʹ, “"to boil" or "to cook"")

    From Wiktionary

  • Russian samo self sem-1 in Indo-European roots varit' to boil

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Samovar Sentence Examples

  • Get the samovar ready!...

  • Go and get the samovar to boil for your grandfather.

  • Even those playing cards behind the partition soon left their game and came over to the samovar, yielding to the general mood of courting Mary Hendrikhovna.

  • The samovar, or urn for boiling the water, is always much in evidence.

  • On her way past the butler's pantry she told them to set a samovar, though it was not at all the time for tea.

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Words Starting With

SSASAM

Words Ending With

RARVAR

Unscrambles

samovar

Words Starting With S and Ending With R

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With S7 Letter Words Ending With R