Tupperware

• tupperware

From Tupper +‎ -ware. Named after American businessman Earl Tupper (1907–1983), who invented the product in 1942 and founded the company that produced it. Thus it is a genericised trademark.

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Tupperware (countable and uncountable, plural Tupperware or Tupperwares)

1. A food-storage container (often plastic), or a set of such containers.

   Synonyms: plastic container, food container

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tupperware.

• German: eintuppern

• tupperware, tupper, táper, tóper, túper

Unadapted borrowing from English Tupperware.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtapeɾw̝eɾ/ [ˈt̪a.peɾ.w̝eɾ], /ˈtapeɾweɾ/ [ˈt̪a.peɾ.weɾ], /ˈtapeɾweɾ/ [ˈt̪a.pe.ɾweɾ]
  • Rhymes: -apeɾw̝eɾ, -apeɾweɾ
• IPA^(key): /ˈtopeɾw̝eɾ/ [ˈt̪o.peɾ.w̝eɾ], /ˈtopeɾweɾ/ [ˈt̪o.peɾ.weɾ], /ˈtopeɾweɾ/ [ˈt̪o.pe.ɾweɾ]
  • Rhymes: -opeɾw̝eɾ, -opeɾweɾ
• IPA^(key): /tuppeɾˈw̝aɾe/ [t̪up̚.perˈw̝a.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -aɾe
• Syllabification: Tup‧per‧wa‧re

Tupperware m (plural Tupperwares)

1. Tupperware container

• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “Tupperware”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]