beverage

Definitions

1. A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, usually excluding water.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. (A gift of) drink money.
   British, archaic, countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“carbonated beverage”

“alcoholic beverage”

“He knew no Beverage but the flowing Stream; / His taſteful well-earn'd Food the ſilvan Game, […]”

“[W]here coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.”

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