drunk·ard

(drŭng′kərd)

One who is habitually drunk.

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drunkard

(ˈdrʌŋkəd)

a person who is frequently or habitually drunk

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

drunk•ard

(ˈdrʌŋ kərd)

n.

a person who is habitually drunk.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

drunkard - a chronic drinker

drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino

alcoholic, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, souse, soaker - a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

imbiber, juicer, toper, drinker - a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)

drunkard

noun drunk, alcoholic, soak (slang), drinker, lush (slang), carouser, sot, tippler, toper, wino (informal), dipsomaniac Although he liked a drink, he was never a drunkard.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

drunkard

noun

A person who is habitually drunk:

drunk, inebriate, sot, tippler.

Slang: boozehound, boozer, lush, rummy, soak, souse, sponge, stiff.

Translations

سِكّير

alkoholikopilec

drukkenbolt

pijanacpijanica

részegesiszákoskorhely

fyllibytta, alkóhólisti

ubriacone beone ubriacona

drunkard

[ˈdrʌŋkəd] N → borracho/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

drunkard

[ˈdrʌŋkə^rd] n → ivrogne mfdrunk driver n (mainly US) → conducteur/trice m/f en état d'ivressedrunk driving n (mainly US) → conduite f en état d'ivresse
to be accused of drunk driving → être accusé(e) d'avoir conduit en état d'ivresse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

drunkard

n → Trinker(in) m(f), → Säufer(in) m(f) (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

drunkard

[ˈdrʌŋkəd] n → beone/a, ubriacone/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

drunk

(draŋk) verb

see drink.

adjective

overcome by having too much alcohol. A drunk man fell off the bus; drunk with success.

noun

a drunk person, especially one who is often drunk.

ˈdrunkard (-kəd) noun

a person who is often drunk. I'm afraid he's turning into a drunkard.

ˈdrunken adjective

1. drunk. drunken soldiers.

2. caused by being drunk. a drunken sleep.

drunken ˈdriving noun

(also drunk driving) driving under the influence of alcohol.

ˈdrunkenness noun

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"MY friend," said a distinguished officer of the Salvation Army, to a Most Wicked Sinner, "I was once a drunkard, a thief, an assassin.

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The yet levelled musket shook like a drunkard's arm against the panel;

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He opened the glass of the dull lamp, whose wick, burnt up and swollen like a drunkard's nose, came flying off in little carbuncles at the candle's touch, and scattering hot sparks about, rendered it matter of some difficulty to kindle the lazy taper; when a noise, as of a man snoring deeply some steps higher up, caused him to pause and listen.

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By that time, I was staggering on the kitchen floor like a little drunkard, through having been newly set upon my feet, and through having been fast asleep, and through waking in the heat and lights and noise of tongues.

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Yes, it is even said of me that I am "united to a drunkard." What a thing to hear!

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The subject was a German who kept a liquor-shop aud was an inveterate drunkard.

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John was no drunkard, though he could at times exceed; and the picture of Houston drinking neat spirits at his hall-table struck him with something like disgust.

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To Trent, who had known him for years as a broken-down hanger-on of the settlement at Buckomari, a drunkard, gambler, a creature to all appearance hopelessly gone under, this look and this almost passionate appeal were like a revelation.

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"And so," she said, "here we are, ruined in the prime of our youth and strength, you by a drunkard, and I by a fool; it is very hard." We both felt in ourselves that we were not what we had been.

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"Father is a drunkard and a thief; I am a beggar, and the husband of my sister is a usurer," continued Gania, bitterly.

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Behind Ed Griffith's saloon old Jerry Bird the town drunkard lay asleep on the ground.

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Hearing the yell the officer turned round, and at the same moment Pierre threw himself on the drunkard. Just when Pierre snatched at and struck up the pistol Makar Alexeevich at last got his fingers on the trigger, there was a deafening report, and all were enveloped in a cloud of smoke.

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