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Beverage vs Shochu - What's the difference?

beverage | shochu |

As nouns the difference between beverage and shochu

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 shochu is a japanese alcoholic beverage, most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potato or rice typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake.

beverage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A liquid to consume, usually excluding water; a drink. This may include tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks.
  • * Thomson
    • He knew no beverage but the flowing stream.
  • (slang, archaic) A treat, or drink money.

    • 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).

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    shochu

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A Japanese alcoholic beverage, most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potato or rice. Typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake.

    • See also

    *sake *awamori