spirits

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪɹɪts/

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Verb

spirits

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spirit

Noun

spirits

1. plural of spirit

Derived terms

• animal spirits
• ardent spirits
• methylated spirits
• mineral spirits
• neutral spirits
• rectified spirits
• wood spirits

Noun

spirits pl (plural only)

2. (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) Distilled alcoholic beverages.

   Synonyms: hard liquor, hard drink (narrow sense), liquor (narrow sense)

   Hypernyms: hard drink (broad sense), liquor (broad sense), drink (alcoholic sense) < drink (broad sense), beverage

   Coordinate terms: (undistilled) beer, wine, cider (hard sense), hard cider; (not even alcoholic at all) soft drink

Derived terms

• ardent spirits
• neutral spirits
• rectified spirits

Translations

strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation

• Arabic: كُحُول (ar) m (kuḥūl), خَمْر (ar) (ḵamr)
• Czech: destilát (cs) m, lihovina (cs) f
• Danish: likør (da) c, spiritus c
• Esperanto: alkoholaĵo, likvoro
• Finnish: viina (fi)
• French: spiritueux (fr) m pl
• Greek: οινοπνευματώδη (el) n pl (oinopnevmatódi)
• Hungarian: alkohol (hu), szesz (hu), szeszes ital (hu), rövidital (hu)
• Ingrian: viina
• Irish: biotáille f
• Latvian: spirts (lv) m
• Norwegian: sprit
• Persian: عرق (fa) ('araq)
• Polish: napój alkoholowy m
• Portuguese: destilados (pt) m pl
• Romanian: spirt (ro) n, spirturi n pl
• Russian: спирт (ru) m (spirt)
• Spanish: licor (es)
• Swahili: spiriti
• Swedish: sprit (sv) c
• Thai: สุรา (th) (sù-raa)

See also

• short drink, shooter

Anagrams

• tripsis