beverage

• beveridge (obsolete)

From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛvɚɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈbɛvɹɪd͡ʒ/

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• Hyphenation: bev‧er‧age
• Rhymes: -ɛvəɹɪdʒ, -ɛvɹɪdʒ

beverage (countable and uncountable, plural beverages)

2. A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, often excluding water.

   Alternative forms: bevvy, bev (clipped forms)

   Synonym: drink

   Hypernyms: liquid < substance, stuff

   Hyponyms: soft drink, hard drink; adult beverage, functional beverage, junk beverage; see also Thesaurus:beverage

   carbonated beverage;   alcoholic beverage

   • 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 44:

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

   • 1848, J. S. Skinner & Son, editor, The Plough, The Loom and the Anvil‎^[1], volume I, Philadelphia: J. S. Skinner & Son, page 137:

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

3. (British, slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.

• More elevated than plainer drink. Beverage is of French origin, while drink 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.

• Drink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “beverage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “beverage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• berage, berrage, berygge, bevereche, beveredg, beverege, beverich, beveriche

From Old French beverage, variant of bevrage; equivalent to bever +‎ -age. For forms such as berage, compare Middle French berage, variant of breuvage.

• IPA^(key): /bɛvəˈraːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈbɛvərad͡ʒ(ə)/

beverage (plural beverages)

1. An (alcoholic) beverage or beverages.
2. Such a beverage used to close negotiations; said negotiations in themselves.
3. Hardship, pain, torment; events that are hard to handle.

• English: beverage
• Scots: beverage, baiverage

• “beverāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 October 2018.

beverage oblique singular, m (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)

1. alternative form of bevrage