What is the difference between beverage and drink?
beverage | drink |
A liquid to consume, usually excluding water; a drink. This may include tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks.
* Thomson
(slang, archaic) A treat, or drink money.
(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
* Spenser
* Thackeray
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* Thackeray
* Shakespeare
To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
* Dryden
To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
* Tennyson
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
* Taylor (1630)
A beverage.
A (served) alcoholic beverage.
The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take'' or ''have .
A type of beverage (usually mixed).
Alcoholic beverages in general.
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Any body of water.
(uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink
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Drink is a synonym of beverage.
As nouns the difference between beverage and drink
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 drink is a beverage.As a verb drink is
to consume (a liquid) through the mouth.beverage
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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
* (l)Hyponyms
* See alsoSee also
* ----drink
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Alternative forms
* drinck (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, / There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
- the bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room
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- Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
- I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.
- Let the purple violets drink the stream.
- to drink the cooler air
- My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
- Let me drink delicious poison from thy eye.
- And some men now live ninety years and past, / Who never drank tobacco first nor last.
Synonyms
* gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip, see also * (consume alcoholic beverages) drink alcoholDerived terms
* drinkable * drink and drive * drinker * drinking * drink like a fish * drink under the table * drink upEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m).Noun
George Goodchild
- For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink