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cutlery

kitchen utensil used for eating food
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Summary

cutlery ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,151 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: kitchenware[2], utensil[3]
  • Has use: ingestion[4], serving[5], food and drink preparation[6]
  • Commons category: Cutlery[7]
  • Unicode character: 🍴[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Eating utensils[9]
  • Commons gallery: Cutlery[10]
  • Described by source: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12]
  • Partially coincident with: table set[13], service cutlery[14]
  • Used by: eater[15]
  • Different from: cutlery[16], Flatware[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Why It Matters

cutlery has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] cutlery is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . tesauromuseus.com.br. Retrieved . tesauromuseus.com.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → ['Q81895', 'Q32489', 'Q81881']
    Verbaalpina id → C5088
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C5088, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0009700-stolni-nacini
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0009700-stolni-nacini, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → kitchenware, utensil
    Topic's main category → Category:Eating utensils
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 7848, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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