Usually means: Ancient container, typically ceramic, two-handled.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. amphora: Merriam-Webster
  2. amphora: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amphora: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amphora: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amphora: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amphora, amphora: Wordnik
  7. amphora: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. amphora: Wiktionary
  9. amphora: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amphora: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amphora: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Amphora, amphora: Dictionary.com
  13. amphora: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. AMPHORA, Amphora (diatom), Amphora (disambiguation), Amphora (unit), Amphora: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Amphora: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. amphora: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. amphora: Rhymezone
  18. Amphora: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. amphora: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. amphora: FreeDictionary.org
  21. amphora: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. amphora: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. amphora: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. amphora: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amphora: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amphora: Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. amphora: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  4. Amphora: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

(Note: See amphorae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (amphora)

noun:  (chiefly historical) A large vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil.
noun:  (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 80 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 26 L although differing slightly over time.
noun:  (historical) A Roman unit of ship capacity, similar to tonnage.
noun:  (botany) A lower valve of a fruit that opens transversely.

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