🇬🇧 Colander meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A colander is a special bowl with lots of little holes in it that you use to let water drain out of food, like when you pour cooked pasta or washed strawberries into it so the water can run out but the food stays inside.

I pretended the colander was a basketball hoop, but Mom said, “NO POINTS FOR MEATBALLS ON THE CEILING.”

The colander is like a superhero for food: it saves the noodles from drowning but lets the water escape.

My sister called the colander “the holy bowl,” because it has more holes than a detective story.

Grandpa pretended the colander was a space helmet, but he said it had too much “air conditioning” for outer space.

Colanders have been used for hundreds of years, so people long ago were ALSO poking holes in bowls just to rescue their noodles.

She knocked a colander into the sink; pasta tumbled out and water ran through the colander. She laughed, grabbed the colander, held it over a bowl, and shook it so steam escaped. She rinsed strawberries in the colander under cool tap water. The full bowl smelled warm; she hugged the colander and ate.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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