beverage

English

Etymology

Old French bevrage, from boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Cognate to imbibe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

beverage (plural beverages)

1. A liquid to consume, usually excluding water; a drink. This may include tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks.
   • Thomson

     He knew no beverage but the flowing stream.

2. (slang, archaic) A treat, or 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.
• The word beverage is rarely used in British English.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:beverage

Translations

a drink

• Amharic: መጠጥ (am) (mäṭäṭ)
• Breton: boeson (br) m, evaj (br) m
• Bulgarian: напитка (bg) (napitka) f, питие (bg) (pitie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飲料 (cmn), 饮料 (cmn) (yǐnliào)

• Czech: nápoj (cs) m
• Dutch: drankje (nl) n, drank (nl)
• Esperanto: trinkaĵo (eo)
• Finnish: juoma (fi)
• French: boisson (fr) f, breuvage (fr) m
• Georgian: სასმელი (ka) (sasmeli)
• German: Getränk (de)
• Greek: ποτό (el) (potó) n
• Hebrew: משקה (he) (mashqe) m
• Hungarian: ital (hu)
• Ido: drinkajo (io)
• Interlingua: bibita (ia)
• Italian: bevanda (it)

• Japanese: 飲料 (ja) (いんりょう, inryō)
• Latvian: dzēriens (lv) m
• Old Church Slavonic: пиво (pivo) n
• Ottoman Turkish: meşrubat
• Persian: نوشابه (fa) (nushabe)
• Polish: napój (pl) m
• Portuguese: bebida (pt) f
• Romanian: băutură (ro) f
• Russian: напиток (ru) (napitok) m
• Serbo-Croatian: napitak (sh)
• Slovak: nápoj (sk) m
• Spanish: bebida (es) f, trago (es) m
• Swahili: kinywaji (sw)
• Swedish: dryck (sv) c
• Turkish: içecek (tr), meşrubat (tr)
• Vietnamese: nước giải khát (vi)
• Welsh: diod (cy) f

See also

• drink
• Wikipedia article on drinks and beverages

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Old French

Noun

beverage m (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)

1. Alternative form of bevrage.