upTypical drinkware. This list of glassware includes drinking vessels (drinkware),

tableware Tableware items are the dishware and utensils used for setting a table, serving food, and dining. The term includes cutlery, glassware, serving dishes, serving utensils, and other items used for practical as well as decorative purposes. The ...

used to set a table for eating a meal and generally

glass Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline solid, non-crystalline) solid. Because it is often transparency and translucency, transparent and chemically inert, glass has found widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in window pane ...

items such as vases, and glasses used in the catering industry. It does not include

laboratory glassware Laboratory glassware is a variety of equipment used in science, scientific work, traditionally made of glass. Glass may be blown, bent, cut, molded, or formed into many sizes and shapes. It is commonly used in chemistry, biology, and analytical ...

Drinkware

Drinkware, beverageware (in other words,

cup A cup is an open-top vessel (container) used to hold liquids for drinking, typically with a flattened hemispherical shape, and often with a capacity of about . Cups may be made of pottery (including porcelain), glass, metal, wood, stone, pol ...

jug A jug is a type of container commonly used to hold and serve liquids, but not normally to drink from directly. It has an opening, sometimes narrow, from which to pour or drink, and has a handle, and usually a pouring lip. Jugs throughout histor ...

s and

ewer In American English, a pitcher is a container with a spout used for storing and pouring liquids. In English-speaking countries outside North America, a jug is any container with a handle and a mouth and spout for liquid – American "pitchers" wi ...

s) is a general term for a vessel intended to contain

beverages A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture. Common types of drinks include plain drinking water, milk, juice, smoothie ...

or liquid

food Food is any substance consumed by an organism for Nutrient, nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or Fungus, fungal origin and contains essential nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, protein (nutrient), proteins, vitamins, ...

s for

drinking Drinking is the act of ingesting water or other liquids into the body through the mouth, proboscis, or elsewhere. Humans drink by swallowing, completed by peristalsis in the esophagus. The physiological processes of drinking vary widely among ...

or consumption. * Beaker *

Beer glassware Beer glassware comprise vessels, today usually made of glass, designed or commonly used for serving and drinking beer. Styles of beer glasses vary in accord with national or regional traditions; legal or customary requirements regarding serving ...

Bottle A bottle is a narrow-necked container made of an impermeable material (such as glass, plastic or aluminium) in various shapes and sizes that stores and transports liquids. Its mouth, at the bottling line, can be sealed with an internal ...

Coffee cup A coffee cup is a cup for serving coffee and List of coffee drinks, coffee-based drinks. There are three major types: conventional cups used with saucers, mugs used without saucers, and disposable cups. Cups and mugs generally have a Handle (gri ...

Cup A cup is an open-top vessel (container) used to hold liquids for drinking, typically with a flattened hemispherical shape, and often with a capacity of about . Cups may be made of pottery (including porcelain), glass, metal, wood, stone, pol ...

Dwarf ale glass Dwarf ale glasses are small drinking glasses with a short or vestigial stem. In use for over 150 years, they were made for drinking strong ale, which became fashionable from the mid-17th century and into the 18th century. Purpose and appearance ...

Heavy baluster glass Heavy baluster glasses or goblets (French language, French 'balustre' = 'pomegranate flower') were popular in the period 1680–1740. The baluster stem is formed in one piece with the bowl of the glass, and is then drawn out to form a tapering ...

Jar A jar is a rigid, cylindrical or slightly conical container, typically made of glass, ceramic, or plastic, with a wide mouth or opening that can be closed with a lid, screw cap, lug cap, cork stopper, roll-on cap, crimp-on cap, press-on ca ...

* Mazagran *

Mug A mug is a type of cup, a drinking vessel usually intended for hot drinks such as: coffee, hot chocolate, or tea. Mugs usually have handles and hold a larger amount of fluid than other types of cups such as teacups or coffee cups. Typically ...

Pythagorean cup A Pythagorean cup (also known as a Pythagoras cup, greedy cup, cup of justice, anti greedy goblet or Tantalus cup) is a practical joke device in a form of a Drinkware, drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras, Pythagoras of Samos. When it is filled b ...

Quaich A quaich , Archaism, archaically quaigh or quoich, is a special kind of shallow two-handled Drinking#Alcoholic beverages, drinking cup or Bowl (vessel), bowl of a type traditional in Scotland. It derives from the Scottish Gaelic (), meaning ...

* Sake cup (''ochoko'') *

Stemware Stemware is drinkware where the bowl stands on a ''stem'' above a ''foot'' (base that allows to put the vessel down onto a table). It is usually made from glass, but may be made from ceramics or metals. The stemware is intended for cool bever ...

* Tazza *

Teacup A teacup is a cup for drinking tea. It generally has a small handle (grip), handle that may be grasped with the thumb and one or two fingers. It is typically made of a ceramic material and is often part of a set which is composed of a cup and ...

Tiki mug A tiki mug is a large ceramic cocktail drinking vessel that originated in tiki bars and tropical-themed restaurants. The term "tiki mug" is a blanket term for the sculptural drinkware even though they vary in size and most do not contain handles. ...

Trembleuse A ''trembleuse'', also known as a ''tasse trembleuse'' or chocolate cup, is a pottery drinking cup and saucer with the saucer given a raised holding area, called the "gallery", in which the cup sits more securely than in the normal style. The ...

Tumblers Tumbler may refer to: * Tumbler (firearms), a part of the firing mechanism in older firearms * Tumbler (glass), a type of glassware * Tumbler (pigeon), a pigeon breed * Tumbler (Project Xanadu), a unique identifier of a unit of text or an e ...

Vitrolero A Vitrolero () is a large, cylindrical shaped, clear container usually made of glass that holds beverages cooled with ice, typically aguas frescas. Vitroleros are very popular in Mexico and can be found in many taquerías and Mexican cuisine rest ...

The word ''cup'' comes from

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', from

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

, from Late Latin ', drinking vessel, perhaps variant of Latin ', tub, cask. The first known use of the word cup is before the 12th century.

Tumblers

Tumblers are flat-bottomed drinking glasses. *

Collins glass In American English, a collins glass is a glass tumbler which typically contains . It is commonly used to serve sparkling cocktails, especially long drinks like the Tom Collins or John Collins, as well as fruit juice, water or any cold drinks. ...

, for a tall mixed drink. * Dizzy cocktail glass, a glass with a wide, shallow bowl, comparable to a normal cocktail glass but without the stem *

Faceted glass A faceted glass or granyonyi stakan (, literally ''faceted glass'') (, derived from ''грань'', meaning ''facet'') is a type of drinkware made from especially hard and thick glass and having a faceted form. It is a very widespread form of dri ...

or ' *

Highball glass A highball glass is a glass tumbler that can contain . It is used to serve highball cocktails and other mixed drink A mixed drink is a Drink, beverage in which two or more ingredients are Drink mixer, mixed. Types * List of non-alcoholic mi ...

, for mixed drinks * Iced tea glass * Juice glass, for fruit juices and vegetable juices *

Old fashioned glass The old fashioned glass, otherwise known as the rocks glass, whiskey glass, and lowball glass (or simply lowball), is a short tumbler used for serving spirits, such as whisky, neat or with ice cubes (" on the rocks"). It is also normally use ...

, traditionally, for a simple cocktail or liquor "

on the rocks Various unique terms are used in bartending. Definitions and usage Straight, up, and straight up In bartending, the terms "straight up" and "up" ordinarily refer to an alcoholic drink that is shaken or stirred with ice and then strained and ...

" or "

neat Neat may refer to: * Neat (bartending), a single, unmixed liquor served in a rocks glass * Neat, an old term for horned oxen * Neat Records, a British record label * Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT), a genetic algorithm (GA) for t ...

". Contemporary American "rocks" glasses may be much larger, and used for a variety of beverages over ice. *

Shot glass A shot glass is a glass originally designed to hold or measure spirits or liquor, which is either imbibed straight from the glass ("a shot") or poured into a cocktail ("a drink"). An alcoholic beverage served in a shot glass and typically consu ...

, a small glass for up to four ounces of liquor. The modern shot glass has a thicker base and sides than the older whiskey glass. * Water glass * Whiskey tumbler, a small, thin-walled glass for a straight shot of liquor

Beer glassware

Beer boot A beer boot () is a boot-shaped beer glass. Beer boots exist in sizes ranging from up to , but is a more typical size. Beer boots are commonly consumed communally and are popular with younger people as part of drinking games. Production Be ...

Beer bottle A beer bottle is a bottle designed as a container for beer. Such designs vary greatly in size and shape, but the glass commonly is brown or green to reduce spoilage from light, especially ultraviolet. The most widely established alternatives to ...

Beer stein A beer stein ( ), or simply stein, is either a traditional beer mug made out of stoneware or specifically an ornamental beer mug sold as a souvenir or collectible. An 1894 article on beer mugs in the American Vogue (magazine), ''Vogue'' magazin ...

, large mug traditionally with a hinged lid *

Berkemeyer A Berkemeyer is a drinking glass with a wide, flared bowl, dating from 15th-century Germany and the Netherlands, and still made today. They have a characteristic green or yellow colour caused by iron impurities in the sand used for glass productio ...

Glass Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline solid, non-crystalline) solid. Because it is often transparency and translucency, transparent and chemically inert, glass has found widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in window pane ...

, 200ml (7 fl. oz.) Australian beer glass (Queensland and Victoria) * Handle, 425ml New Zealand beer glass * Jug, 750–1000ml served at pubs in New Zealand * Middy, 285ml (10 fl. oz.) Australian beer glass (New South Wales) *

Pilsner glass Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewery. History ...

, for pale lager *

Pint glass A pint glass is a form of drinkware made to hold either a United Kingdom, British imperial pint of or an United States, American pint of . Other definitions also exist, see below. These glasses are typically used to beer glass, serve beer, and a ...

, for an imperial pint of beer or cider *

Pony glass A pony glass may mean one of two types of small glassware: * A quarter-pint glass of beer: , metricated to 140ml in Australia. * A small, stemmed glass of about one ounce, similar to a stemmed shot glass. Used for liqueurs or cordials, hence also ...

, for a 140ml of beer, a "short" or "small" beer * Pot glass *

Pot Pot may refer to: Containers * Flowerpot, a container in which plants are cultivated * Pottery, ceramic containers made from clay * Cooking pot, a type of cookware * Pot, a beer glass Places * Ken Jones Aerodrome, IATA airport code POT * ...

, 285ml (10 fl. oz.) Australian beer glass (Queensland and Victoria) *

Schooner A schooner ( ) is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel defined by its Rig (sailing), rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more Mast (sailing), masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than t ...

, 425ml (15 fl. oz.) Australian beer glass, 285 ml (10 fl. oz.) in South Australia *

Tankard A tankard is a form of drinkware consisting of a large, roughly cylindrical, drinking cup with a single handle. In recent centuries tankards were typically made of silver or pewter, but can be made of other materials, for example glass, wood, ...

, a large drinking cup, usually with a handle and a hinged cover * Wheat beer glass, for wheat beer *

Yard glass The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly ...

, a very tall, conical beer glass, with a round ball base, usually hung on a wall when empty

Stemware

* Absinthe glass, a short, thick-stemmed glass with a tall, wide bowl and some feature (like a ridge, bead, or bulge) indicating a correct serving of absinthe * Chalice or goblet, an ornate stem glass, especially one for ceremonial purposes *

Champagne coupe A champagne glass is stemware designed for Champagne (wine), champagne and other sparkling wines. The two most common forms are the flute and coupe, both stemmed; holding the glass by the stem prevents warming the drink. Champagne can also be d ...

, a stem glass with a wide, shallow bowl, for champagne (similar to a cocktail glass) *

Champagne flute A champagne glass is stemware designed for champagne and other sparkling wines. The two most common forms are the flute and coupe, both stemmed; holding the glass by the stem prevents warming the drink. Champagne can also be drunk from a normal ...

, a stem glass with a tall, narrow bowl, for champagne *

Cocktail glass A cocktail glass is a stemware, stemmed glass (drinkware), glass with an inverted cone bowl, mainly used to serve bartending terminology#Straight up, straight-up cocktails. The term ''cocktail glass'' is often used interchangeably with ''marti ...

, a stem glass with a wide, shallow bowl, for cocktails * Fountain glass, a tall fluted stem glass common in

soda fountain A soda fountain is a device that dispenses carbonated soft drinks, called fountain drinks. They can be found in restaurants, concession stands and other locations such as convenience stores. The machine combines flavored syrup or syrup concentrat ...

family restaurant Restaurants fall into several industry classifications, based upon menu style, preparation methods and pricing, as well as the means by which the food is served to the customer. This article mainly describes the situation in the US, while catego ...

s and 24-hour diner-style restaurants for

milkshake A milkshake (sometimes simply called a shake) is a sweet beverage made by blending milk, ice cream, and flavorings or sweeteners such as butterscotch, caramel sauce, chocolate syrup, or fruit syrup into a thick, sweet, cold mixture. It may ...

s and

ice cream soda An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as an ice cream spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage made by adding ice cream to a soft drink or to a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water. When root beer and va ...

s *

Glencairn whisky glass The Glencairn whisky glass is a style of glass intended for drinking whisky, developed and produced by Glencairn Crystal Ltd, in East Kilbride, a town near Glasgow, Scotland since 1981; originally designed by Raymond Davidson, managing director ...

, a wide bowl with a narrow mouth, similar to a snifter's, but with a shorter, sturdier base, designed for whisky * Hurricane glass (poco grande glass) *

Margarita glass A margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, triple sec, and lime juice. Some margarita recipes include simple syrup as well and are often served with salt on the rim of the glass. Margaritas can be served either shaken with ice (on the rock ...

(variant of champagne coupe) * Nick & Nora *

Rummer A rummer (also known as a Römer or Roemer, among other variations) was a type of large drinking glass studded with prunts to ensure a safe grip, popular mainly in the Rhineland and the Netherlands from the 15th through the 17th century. Rumme ...

* Sherbet, a stem glass for

ice cream Ice cream is a frozen dessert typically made from milk or cream that has been flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as Chocolate, cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit, such as strawberries or peaches. Food ...

sorbet Sorbet (, ) is a frozen dessert made using ice combined with fruit juice, fruit purée, or other ingredients, such as wine, liqueur, or honey. Sorbet does not contain dairy products. Sherbet is similar to sorbet, but contains dairy. Etymolog ...

* Sherry glass *

Snifter A snifter (also called brandy balloon, brandy snifter, brandy glass, brandy bowl, or a cognac glass) is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown ...

, a liquor glass with a short stem and a wide bowl that narrows at the top, for brandy and liquor *

Wine glass A wine glass is a type of Glass (drinkware), glass that is used for drinking or wine tasting, tasting wine. Most wine glasses are stemware (goblets), composed of three parts: the bowl, stem, and foot. There are a wide variety of slightly differe ...

, a stem glass

Other

* Art glass, glassware that is modern art *

Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("Pitch (baseball), pitches") the Baseball (ball), baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out (baseball), retiring a batter (baseball), batter, ...

, a container, usually with a spout for pouring its contents *

Punch bowl A punch bowl or punchbowl is a bowl, often large and wide, for serving mixed drinks such as hippocras, punch (drink), punch or mulled wine, with a Ladle (spoon), ladle.''The Language of Drink'' Graham and Sue Edwards 1988, Alan Sutton Publishi ...

, a bowl that punch is put in, generally used in parties *

Vase A vase ( or ) is an open container. It can be made from a number of materials, such as ceramics, glass, non- rusting metals, such as aluminium, brass, bronze, or stainless steel. Even wood has been used to make vases, either by using tree specie ...

, an open container often used to hold flowers *

Bong A bong (also known as a water pipe) is a filtration device generally used for smoking cannabis, tobacco, or other herbal substances. In the bong shown in the photo, the smoke flows from the lower port on the left to the upper port on the right ...

, a smoking device often made from glass *

Drug pipe Drug pipes are vessels used as drug paraphernalia to aid the smoking of hard drugs. They usually consist of a glass tube with or without a bulb, the latter particularly used when freebasing methamphetamine or crack cocaine. Methamphetamine pipe A ...

, a form of drug paraphernalia often made from glass *

Peking glass Peking glass, also known as Kangxi Glass, Qianlong Glass or Tao Liao Ping, is a form of Chinese glassware that originated in 18th century Beijing, China (then romanized as "Peking" in European writings). Originally used in the fabrication of gla ...

, a Chinese form of overlay glass, often in the form of snuff boxes or vases *

Penny lick A penny lick was a small glass for serving ice cream, used in London, England, and elsewhere in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Street vendors would sell the contents of the glass for one penny. The glass was usually ma ...

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