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beverage
English
Alternative forms
- beveridge (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bib?. Related to imbibe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bev???d?/, /?bev??d?/
Noun
beverage (countable and uncountable, plural beverages)
- (chiefly Canada, US) A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks, usually excluding water.
- (Britain, slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.
Usage notes
More elevated than plainer drink. Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations.
Synonyms
- drink
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:beverage
Derived terms
- bevvy
- bev
Related terms
- bever
Translations
References
- Drink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- beverage at OneLook Dictionary Search
- beverage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- beverich, beverege, bevereche, beveriche, beveredg, berage, berrage, berygge
Etymology
From Old French beverage, variant of bevrage; equivalent to bever +? -age. For forms such as berage, compare Middle French berage, variant of breuvage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?v?r?a?d?(?)/, /?b?v?rad?(?)/, /?b?v?r?d?(?)/, /?b?v?rit?(?)/
Noun
beverage (plural beverages)
- An (alcoholic) beverage or beverages.
- Such a beverage used to close negotiations; said negotiations in themselves.
- Hardship, pain, torment; events that are hard to handle.
Descendants
- English: beverage
- Scots: beverage, baiverage
References
- “bever??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-08.
Old French
Noun
beverage m (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)
- Alternative form of bevrage
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shaojiu
English
Etymology
The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of ????? (sh?oji?).
Noun
shaojiu (uncountable)
- Synonym of baijiu.
shaojiu From the web:
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