transcription, транскрипция: [ spu:n ]
( spoons, spooning, spooned)
1.
A spoon is an object used for eating, stirring, and serving food. One end of it is shaped like a shallow bowl and it has a long handle.
He stirred his coffee with a spoon.
N-COUNT
2.
You can refer to an amount of food resting on a spoon as a spoon of food.
...tea with two spoons of sugar.
N-COUNT : usu N of n
3.
If you spoon food into something, you put it there with a spoon.
He spooned instant coffee into two of the mugs...
VERB : V n prep
4.
see also greasy spoon , slotted spoon , soup spoon , wooden spoon
5.
If you think that someone has a lot of advantages because they have a rich or influential family, you can say that they have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth .
She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and everything has been done for her.
PHRASE : Ns inflect