refreshment

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1665; either directly or via refreschement, from Old French refrescher (12th century; modern rafraîchir), itself from re- "again" + fresche "fresh" (Modern French frais; from a Germanic source, cognate with Old High German frisc, modern German frisch, Dutch fris etc.)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹeʃ.mənt/

Noun

refreshment (countable and uncountable, plural refreshments)

1. The action of refreshing; a means of restoring strength, energy or vigour.
2. A light snack or fresh drink without alcohol.

Related terms

• refresher

Translations

The action of refreshing; a means of restoring strength, energy or vigour

• Dutch: verfrissing (nl), verademing
• Finnish: virkistys (fi), piristys (fi), virkistäminen (fi), piristäminen (fi)
• French: rafraîchissement (fr) m

• Macedonian: освежување n (osvežúvanje)
• Russian: освеже́ние (ru) n (osvežénije)
• Spanish: refrescamiento (es) m

A light snack or drink

• Dutch: versnapering (nl)
• Finnish: virvoke (fi), virvoitusjuoma (fi)
• French: rafraîchissement (fr) m
• German: Erfrischung (de) f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سارده‌مه‌نی‏‎

• Macedonian: освежителен пијалок m (osvežítelen píjalok)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forfriskning m, f

  Nynorsk: forfrisking f

• Portuguese: refresco (pt) m
• Russian: (snack) заку́ска (ru) f (zakúska), (drink) ^{(please verify)} прохлади́тельный напи́ток m (proxladítelʹnyj napítok)
• Spanish: refrigerio m

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• Thai: ^{(please verify)} เครื่องดื่ม (krueng-duem)