bottled

bottled — adjective

1. kept inside a bottle rather than in a can, carton, or other type of container

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Definition

kept inside a bottle rather than in a can, carton, or other type of container

Example

The restaurant serves only bottled water, not tap water.

common collocation: bottled water

Élise bought bottled orange juice for the children to take to school.

Common collocations
  • bottled water
  • bottled beer
  • bottled juice
  • bottled sauce
  • bottled drinks
  • bottled condiments
Synonyms
  • packaged

    broader term — can mean packed in any container, not just bottles

  • bottle-conditioned

    specific to beer that continues fermenting in the bottle

  • pre-bottled

    emphasises that the bottling was done commercially beforehand

Antonyms
  • tap

    used for water supplied through pipes rather than sold in bottles

  • canned

    stored in a metal can, not a bottle

  • fresh

    recently made or prepared, not stored in a bottle

Grammar Patterns

bottled + noun (water, beer, sauce, juice)

Usage Note

Bottled is used mainly before nouns for drinks, sauces, and other liquids. It contrasts with tap (for water), canned or tinned (for drinks), and fresh or homemade (for sauces and condiments).

Common Mistakes

I need a bottled of soda for the party.
I need a bottle of soda for the party.
'bottled' is an adjective, not a noun; use 'bottle' for the container itself.

Word family

Synonym discussion

Sense: adjective/1

All four words describe how food or drink is stored for sale. Bottled specifically means the item is inside a glass or plastic bottle — for example, bottled water or bottled beer. Canned (US) and tinned (UK) mean stored in a sealed metal container, like canned soup or tinned tomatoes. Packaged is the broadest term and can refer to any container — a box, a bag, a jar, or a bottle. Use bottled when the container matters (e.g., taste or quality differences from tap or canned), and packaged when the exact container is not important. For example: 'She brought bottled water on the hike' (specific container) versus 'She bought packaged snacks for the trip' (any wrapping).

bottled ↗cannedpackagedtinned ↗

Common collocations

Nouns

Etymology

LatinFrenchEnglish

Bottled comes from the noun bottle, which entered English through Old French boteille, from Latin butticula meaning 'small cask'. The adjective developed as the past participle of the verb to bottle, meaning to put liquid into bottles for storage or sale. By the 17th century, bottled was being used to describe goods that had been sealed in bottles.