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beverage

Syllables: bev·er·ageUK/ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ//ˈbɛvəɹɪd͡ʒ/

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

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

Proper noun capitalized: Beverage

Beverage (plural Beverages)

  1. A surname.

beverage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

beverage in Hindi

drink
पेय pey

beverage in Tamil

பானம், பருகுவன்

beverage in Marathi

beverage, juice
सरबत sarbat

beverage in Urdu

drink
مَشْرُوب maśrūb
More languagesFewer languages
beverage in Bengali
পানীয়
beverage in Malayalam
പാനീയം pānīyaṁ
beverage in Kannada
ಕುಡಿಹ, ಪಾನೀಯ, ಪೇಯ
beverage in Punjabi
ਪੀਣ ਵਾਲੀ ਚੀਜ਼
beverage in Gujarati
પેય peya, પીણું pīṇũ
beverage in Assamese
চৰ্বত sorbot
beverage in Pashto
مشروب mašrub, څښاک cx̌āk
beverage in Arabic
شَرَاب šarāb, مَشْرُوب mašrūb
beverage in Malay
minuman
beverage in Indonesian
minuman
beverage in Thai
เครื่องดื่ม krʉ̂ʉang-dʉ̀ʉm
beverage in Vietnamese
nước giải khát
beverage in Myanmar
ယမကာ ya.ma.ka

Examples of beverage in a sentence

  • He knew no Beverage but the flowing Stream; / His taſteful well-earn'd Food the ſilvan Game, […]1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 44:
  • [W]here coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.1848, J. S. Skinner & Son, editor, The Plough, The Loom and the Anvil, volume I, Philadelphia: J. S. Skinner & Son, page 137:

All 40 example sentences with beverage

Synonyms of beverage

All synonyms of beverage

Forms of beverage

Noun
pluralbeverages
alternative form (obsolete)beveridge
Proper noun
pluralBeverages
alternative formBerridge
alternative formBeveridge

Plural of beverage: beverages

Origin of beverage

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.

Words formed from beverage

Questions about beverage

What does beverage mean?
Beverage means a liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, often excluding water.
What is beverage in Hindi?
Beverage in Hindi is पेय (pey). See Beverage meaning in Hindi.
How do you use beverage in a sentence?
He knew no Beverage but the flowing Stream; / His taſteful well-earn'd Food the ſilvan Game, […]
What part of speech is beverage?
Beverage can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce beverage?
Beverage is pronounced /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of beverage?
The plural of beverage is beverages.

Words near beverage in the dictionary

  1. bevels
  2. bevelveted
  3. Bevendale
  4. bevenomed
  5. bever
  6. beverage
  7. beverages
  8. beverageware
  9. Bevercotes
  10. bevered
  11. Beveren

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beverage (page history and authors); Beverage (page history and authors); beverage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सरबत (Marathi) (page history and authors); beverage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beverage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beverage (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); চৰ্বত (Assamese) (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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