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bev

bev is the clipping of beverage.

Meaning of beverage

Noun

beverage (countable and uncountable, plural beverages)

  1. A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, often excluding water.
    • carbonated beverage
    Synonyms:
    drink
  2. (UK, archaic, slang) (A gift of) drink money.

See all 3 meanings of beverage

Proper noun (1) capitalized: BEV

BEV

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Black English Vernacular.
    • Every step that we take in approaching the black English vernacular will be influenced by our fundamental attitude to the question: how different is BEV from other dialects of English?1972, William Labov, Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular

Noun (1) capitalized: BEV

BEV (plural BEVs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of battery electric vehicle.
    • There are no currently available technologies which can provide all of the energy required for the life of a BEV car.2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Car Show

Noun (2) capitalized: BeV

BeV (plural BeVs or BeV)

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of billion electron volt, 10⁹ eV. A unit used for measuring the energy of subatomic particles.
    Synonyms:
    GeV

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bev

Bev (plural Bevs)

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Beverly and Beverley.

Synonyms of bev

Forms of bev

Noun
pluralbevs
pluralBEVs
pluralBeVs
pluralBeV
Proper noun
pluralBevs

Words formed from bev

Phrases with bev

Questions about bev

What does bev mean?
Bev means a diminutive of the female given names Beverly and Beverley.
What is bev the clipping of?
Bev is the clipping of beverage.
What part of speech is bev?
Bev can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near bev in the dictionary

  1. Beuses
  2. beusite
  3. Beutel
  4. Beutels
  5. Beutler
  6. bev
  7. Bev Alc
  8. bev-alc
  9. Bev. Hills
  10. bevacizumab
  11. Bevacqua

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bev (page history and authors); BEV (page history and authors); BeV (page history and authors); Bev (page history and authors); beverage (page history and authors). 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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