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bev·er·age

(bĕv′ər-ĭj, bĕv′rĭj)

1. Any of various liquids for drinking: The menu lists several beverages, including water, soda, tea, and coffee.

2. A single serving of such a liquid: I ordered a beverage to go with my meal.

[Middle English, from Old French bevrage, from beivre, to drink, from Latin bibere; see pō(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

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beverage

(ˈbɛvərɪdʒ; ˈbɛvrɪdʒ)

any drink, usually other than water

[C13: from Old French bevrage, from beivre to drink, from Latin bibere]

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

bev•er•age

(ˈbɛv ər ɪdʒ, ˈbɛv rɪdʒ)

n.

any drinkable liquid.

[1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French]

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Noun

beverage - any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?"

drinkable, potable, drink

food, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

milk - a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

wish-wash - any thin watery drink

potion - a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage

alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant - a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him"

hydromel - honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented

oenomel - wine mixed with honey

near beer - drink that resembles beer but with less than 1/2 percent alcohol

ginger beer - carbonated slightly alcoholic drink flavored with fermented ginger

mixer - club soda or fruit juice used to mix with alcohol

cooler - an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice

refresher - a drink that refreshes; "he stopped at the bar for a quick refresher"

smoothie - a thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milk

fizz - an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)

cider, cyder - a beverage made from juice pressed from apples

chocolate, cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate - a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

fruit crush, fruit juice - drink produced by squeezing or crushing fruit

ade, fruit drink - a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice

mate - South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate

soft drink - nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated)

coffee, java - a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee"

tea - a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water; "iced tea is a cooling drink"

tea-like drink - a beverage that resembles tea but is not made from tea leaves

drinking water - water suitable for drinking

liquid - a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure

beverage

noun drink, liquid, liquor, refreshment, draught, bevvy (dialect), libation (facetious), thirst quencher, potable, potation food and beverages

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

beverage

noun

Any liquid that is fit for drinking:

drink, drinkable, liquor, potable.

Translations

شَراب، مَشْروب

напиткапитие

nápoj

drikkevarer

Getränk

ποτό

bebida trago

نوشابه

juoma

boisson breuvage consommation

משקה

ital

drykkur

bevanda beveraggio bibita

gėrimas

dzēriens

băutură

nápoj

dryck

kinywaji

alkolsüz içkiiçecek

饮料

beverage

[ˈbevərɪdʒ] N → bebida 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

beverage

[ˈbɛvərɪdʒ] n → boisson f

beverage

n → Getränk nt

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

beverage

[ˈbɛvərɪdʒ] n → bevanda

beverage

(ˈbevəridʒ) noun

a drink, especially tea, coffee, or other non-alcoholic drink.

beverage

n. bebida;

alcoholic ___ -s → bebidas alcohólicas;

nonalcoholic ___ → ___ sin alcohol.

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"Oh, heaven," said Valentine; "is this the reason why grandpapa has made me share all his beverages during the last month?"

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When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club--its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy--aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes.

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The water is held in high estimation by the islanders, some of whom consider it an agreeable as well as a medicinal beverage; they bring it from the mountain in their calabashes, and store it away beneath heaps of leaves in some shady nook near the house.

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Between them Koku and Eradicate had managed to make a pitcher of the beverage, though Mrs.

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Grace being said, -- for those people have their grace as well as we --though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts --Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.

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'With pleasure!' cried my mother, proceeding with alacrity to pull the bell and order the favoured beverage.

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(including John himself) put down his sixpence for a can of flip, which grateful beverage was brewed with all despatch, and set down in the midst of them on the brick floor; both that it might simmer and stew before the fire, and that its fragrant steam, rising up among them, and mixing with the wreaths of vapour from their pipes, might shroud them in a delicious atmosphere of their own, and shut out all the world.

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``It seems to me, reverend father,'' said the knight, ``that the small morsels which you eat, together with this holy, but somewhat thin beverage, have thriven with you marvellously.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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The other treated him at once to an exciting beverage, and expatiated on the pleasure of meeting a compatriot in a foreign land; to hear him, you would have thought they had encountered in Central Africa.

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This beverage required a good half-hour to prepare.

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Game was scanty, and they had to eke out their scanty fare with wild roots and vegetables, such as the Indian potato, the wild onion, and the prairie tomato, and they met with quantities of "red root," from which the hunters make a very palatable beverage. The only human being that crossed their path was a Kansas warrior, returning from some solitary expedition of bravado or revenge, bearing a Pawnee scalp as a trophy.