beverage
See also: Beverage
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- beveridge (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
- 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, […]
- (Britain, slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.
Usage notesEdit
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.
SynonymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:beverage
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
drink
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ReferencesEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French beverage, variant of bevrage; equivalent to bever + -age. For forms such as berage, compare Middle French berage, variant of breuvage.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “beverāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-08.
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
beverage m (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)
- Alternative form of bevrage