drinking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɪŋkɪŋ/

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Verb

drinking

1. present participle of drink

Noun

drinking (plural drinkings)

1. An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.

   Some say drinking is a vice.

   • 1853, Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world, page 372:

     At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.

Synonyms

• potation

Derived terms

• binge drinking
• drinking age
• drinking bird
• drinking-cup
• drinking fountain
• drinking game
• drinking hole
• drinking horn
• drinking-horn
• drinking man's degree
• drinking problem
• drinking song
• drinking-up time
• easy-drinking
• pre-drinking
• relief drinking

 

Translations

act or session by which drink is consumed

• Arabic: شُرْب‎ (ar) (šurb)
• Chechen: малар (malar)
• Finnish: juominen (fi)
• French: boire (fr) m pl
• German: Trinken (de)
• Hebrew: שתייה‎ (he) (sh'tiyá)
• Hungarian: ivás (hu)
• Indonesian: peminuman
• Korean: 마시기 (masigi)
• Malay: peminuman
• Malayalam: കുടിക്കൽ (kuṭikkal)
• Norwegian: drikking (no)
• Polish: picie (pl) n
• Russian: питьё (ru) (pitʹjó)
• Spanish: escabio (es) m (Latin America, colloquial)
• Ukrainian: пиття (pyttja)