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beverage
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See also: Beverage
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.
Pronunciation
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 a soft drink, usually excluding water.
- 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 44:
- He knew no Beverage but the flowing Stream; / His taſteful well-earn'd Food the ſilvan Game, […]
- (British, 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
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:beverage
Derived terms
- adult beverage
- alcoholic beverage
- bev
- beverageware
- bevvy
- functional beverage
- nonbeverage
Related terms
Translations
drink
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References
Drink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “beverage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “beverage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Middle English
Alternative forms
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
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
References
- “beverāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 October 2018.
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Old French
Noun
beverage oblique singular, m (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)
- alternative form of bevrage
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