<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc.</li><li>the contents of a bowl: a bowl of tomato soup</li><li>a rounded, cuplike, hollow part: the bowl of a pipe</li><li>a large drinking cup</li><li>festive drinking; conviviality</li><li>any bowl-shaped depression or formation</li><li>an edifice with tiers of seats forming sides like those of a bowl, having the arena at the bottom; stadium</li><li>Also called bowl game.</li><li>a football game played after the regular season by teams selected by the sponsors of the game, usually as representing the best from a region of the country: the Rose Bowl</li><li>Typography. a curved or semicircular line of a character, as of a, d, b, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform</li></ul>