ale
UK/eɪl/
ale noun: a beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
Noun (1)
ale (countable and uncountable, plural ales)
Proper noun capitalized: Ale
Ale (plural Ales)
- A surname.
- Diminutive of Alejandra, from analogy with English Alison or Alexandra
Noun (2) capitalized: ALE
ALE (uncountable)
ale meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada
ale in Tamil
- beer produced by warm fermentation
- அளி aḷi
ale in Marathi
- अले
ale in Malayalam
- അലെ
ale in Kannada
- ಅಲೆ, ಆಲೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- ale in Punjabi
- ਅਲੇ
- ale in Nepali
- अले
- ale in Arabic
- مِزْر mizr
Examples of ale in a sentence
- We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
- He downed an ale and ordered another.
- Dark ale tends to have a creamy mouthfeel.
Synonyms of ale
Forms of ale
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ales |
| alternative form (obsolete) | eale |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Ales |
Origin of ale
From Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu (compare Dutch aal, Icelandic and Swedish öl (“beer”), Danish, Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk øl (“beer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- (“beer”), or *h₂elu- (“bitter”). Compare Russian ол (ol), Lithuanian alùs, Armenian օղի (ōġi); compare also Latin alum (“comfrey”), alūta (“tawed leather”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).
* As a Spanish surname, from Ale, probably a shortening of Alejandro. * As an Italian surname, likely a variant of Aleo. * As an English surname, from Middle English Ale, shortened from several names such as Alice, Allison, etc. * Also as an English surname, variant of Hale. * As a Dutch surname, from the personal name Aal, also shortened from names such as Alewijn, Albert. * As a Nepali surname, from आले (āle). This surname is mostly found in Nepal. Compare Al.
Words formed from ale
- Adam's ale
- alebench
- ale-bench
- ale bench
- ale-blown
- ale-bush
- ale-conner
- aleconner
- ale conner
- alecy
- ale-draper
- ale-drapery
- ale gallon
- ale-hoof
- ale-house
- alekeep
- alekeeper
- ale-knight
- alelike
- alemonger
- ale pole
- ale-pole
- alepole
- ale post
- alepot
- aleshop
- ale silver
- ale stake
- ale-stake
- alestake
- ale-taster
- aletaster
- ale-washed
- ale-wife
- alewife
- aley
- alish
- audit ale
- bride-ale
- brown ale
- cakes and ale
- church-ale
- clerk-ale
- cockale
- cream ale
- double India pale ale
- English strong ale
- four-ale
- gill-ale
- ginger ale
- give ale
- heather ale
- imperial India pale ale
- India pale ale
- lamb-ale
- mild ale
- old ale
- pale ale
- pot ale
- potale
Phrases with ale
- red ale
- Erta Ale
- four ale
- real ale
- ale house
- ale poles
- ale posts
- small ale
- Welsh ale
- ale houses
- ale stakes
- ale benches
8 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with ale
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- veil
- pale
- avail
- wale
- whale
- bail
- hail
- yale
- bale
- snail
- travail
- brail
- exhale
- frail
- jail
- prevail
- swale
- vail
- wail
- derail
- dwale
- entail
- flail
- Gail
- gayle
- impale
- kale
- quail
- regale
- spale
- thumbnail
- white whale
- curtail
- drail
- gale
- inhale
- retail
- shale
- tael
- unveil
- ail
- all hail
- assail
- ayel
- beyond the pale
- braille
- cakes and ale
- camail
Questions about ale
- What does ale mean?
- Ale means a beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
- What is ale in Tamil?
- Ale in Tamil is அளி (aḷi). See Ale meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ale?
- Ale can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ale?
- Ale is pronounced /eɪl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ale?
- The plural of ale is ales.
Words near ale in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ale (page history and authors); Ale (page history and authors); ALE (page history and authors); ale (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ale (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ale (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ale (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ale (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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