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Sake

Noun CEFR B1
ˈseɪk

Definitions

  1. Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Cause, interest or account.
  3. Alternative spelling of saké.
    alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
  4. Purpose or end; reason.
  5. The benefit or regard of someone or something.
  6. Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.

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Examples

“For the sake of argument”
“For old times' sake”
“Ne ãd except thoſe dayes ſhulde be ſhoꝛtened / ſhulde no fleſſe be faved: Butt foꝛ the choſens ſake thoſe dayes ſhalbe ſhoꝛtened.”
“When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover⟳ laid for him. I liked the man for his own⟳ sake, and even had he promised to turn⟳ out a celebrity it would have⟳ had no weight with me.”
“2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b. But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake⟳ to refute this thesis, […]”
“And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat⟳ of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat⟳ of it all the days of thy life.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

sake bomb sake set sakebiose sakeen Sakel Sakelaris

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