Beverage vs Alcohol - What's the difference?
beverage | alcohol |
A liquid to consume, usually excluding water; a drink. This may include tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks.
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(slang, archaic) A treat, or drink money.
(organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).
(uncountable) An intoxicating beverage made by the fermentation of sugar or sugar-containing material.
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, title= (obsolete) Any very fine powder.
As nouns the difference between beverage and alcohol
is that beverage is a liquid to consume, usually excluding water; a drink this may include tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks while alcohol is (organic chemistry|countable) any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-oh).beverage
English
Noun
(en noun)- He knew no beverage but the flowing stream.
Usage notes
More elevated than plainer (m). Beverage is of French origin, while is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see (list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations).Synonyms
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English
(wikipedia alcohol)Noun
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}