soft drink

English

Soft drinks in a Virginia supermarket

Alternative forms

• softdrink

Etymology

So called in contrast to strong alcoholic beverages, which are "hard liquors".

Pronunciation

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Noun

soft drink (plural soft drinks)

2. Any non-alcoholic drink that is carbonated, and usually also sweet. (In this sense, juice, milk, tea and coffee are not soft drinks.)
4. (broadly) Any non-alcoholic drink.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "And then they run to him with whisky, and so they teach him to rely on the bottle and you get another case of a drunken medium. I know them. You keep off it, Tom!" "Yes, one of our trade should stick to soft drinks."

Antonyms

• hard liquor

Hyponyms

• coke (most common term in the Southeastern US)
• fizzy drink
• fizzy juice, juice (Scotland)
• lemonade
• pop (most common term in Canada and the upper West and upper Midwest of the US, including western WI, most of IL including Chicago, MI, IN, OH, WV and western PA)
• soda (most common term in HI, CA, eastern MO, southwestern IL, eastern WI and New England)
• soda pop
• See also Thesaurus:soft drink

Translations

sweet, non-alcoholic carbonated beverage

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: (carbonated) مَشْرُوب غَازِيّ m (mašrūb ḡāziyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: حاجة ساقعة f (ḥāga sáʔʕa), كازوزه f (kazūza) (old fashioned), أزوزه f (azūza) (old fashioned), بيبس m (bebs) (slang)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 汽水 (hei³ seoi²)

  Hokkien: 汽水 (zh-min-nan) (khì-chúi)

  Mandarin: 軟性飲料／软性饮料 (ruǎnxìng yǐnliào), 軟飲料／软饮料 (zh) (ruǎnyǐnliào), 汽水 (zh) (qìshuǐ)

• Classical Nahuatl: tzopelātl
• Danish: sodavand (da), læskedrik (da) c
• Dutch: frisdrank (nl), prik (nl), limonade, priklimonade (nl)
• Dzongkha: བསིལ་འཐུང (bsil 'thung), མངར་ཆུ (mngar chu)
• Esperanto: refreŝigaĵo, senalkoholaĵo
• Estonian: karastusjook
• Faroese: sodavatn n
• Finnish: virvoitusjuoma (fi), limonaati (fi), limonadi (fi)
• French: boisson gazeuse f, soda (fr) m
• Galician: refresco (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Erfrischungsgetränk (de) n, Limonade (de) f, Brause (de) f, Sprudel (de) m, Sprudelsaft m
• Greek: αναψυκτικό (el) n (anapsyktikó)
• Hebrew: מַשְׁקֶה קַל (he) sg (mashké kal), מַשְׁקָאוֹת קַלִּים pl (mashkaót kalím)
• Hindi: सोडा (hi) m (soḍā), सोडाआ m (soḍāā)
• Hungarian: üdítő (hu), üdítőital (hu)
• Icelandic: gosdrykkur m
• Ido: sodajo
• Indonesian: minuman berbusa
• Italian: bibita (it) f, bevanda gassata f
• Japanese: 清涼飲料 (ja) (せいりょういんりょう, seiryōinryō), 清涼飲料水 (ja) (せいりょういんりょうすい, seiryōinryōsui), ソフトドリンク (sofutodorinku)
• Khmer: ភេសជ្ជ (km) (phesachch)
• Korean: 청량음료(淸凉飮料) (cheongnyang'eumnyo), 소프트 드링크 (sopeuteu deuringkeu)
• Macedonian: гази́ран пи́јалак m (gazíran píjalak), газо́за f (gazóza)
• Malay: minuman ringan
• Maori: wai reka
• Mongolian: хийжүүлсэн ундаа (xiižüülsen undaa)
• Navajo: tó dilchxoshí, tó łichxíʼí
• Norwegian: brus (no) m
• Persian: نوشابه گازدار (fa) (nušâbe-ye gâzdâr)
• Polish: napój gazowany (pl) m
• Portuguese: refrigerante (pt) m, refresco (pt) m, soda (pt) f
• Romanian: băutură răcoritoare, răcoritoare (ro)
• Russian: безалкого́льный напи́ток m (bezalkogólʹnyj napítok), (carbonated) газиро́ванный напи́ток m (gaziróvannyj napítok)
• Scottish Gaelic: deoch-lag f
• Spanish: gaseosa (es) f, bebida f (Chile), refresco m (Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela), soda f (Bolivia, Northern Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico), agua f (Guatemala, colloquial - short for agua gaseosa), casera f (Spain, colloquial), chesco m (Mexico, colloquial), cola f (Ecuador, colloquial), fresco m (Venezuela, colloquial - especially regional and working-class usage), bebida de fantasia f
• Swedish: läsk (sv) c, dricka (sv) c, lemonad (sv) c, brus (sv) c, läskedryck (sv)
• Thai: น้ำอัดลม (th) (náam-àt-lom)
• Tok Pisin: loliwara
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: nước ngọt có ga, nước ngọt (vi)

any non-alcoholic beverage, such as Cola or milk

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不含酒精的飲料／不含酒精的饮料 (bù hán jiǔjīng de yǐnliào)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: alkoholiton juoma
• German: alkoholfreies Getränk n
• Hungarian: alkoholmentes ital
• Indonesian: minuman ringan (id)
• Japanese: ソフトドリンク (sofuto dorinku)
• Korean: 소프트 드링크 (sopeuteu deuringkeu)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: đồ uống không cồn

See also

• cola