BEVERAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beverage mean? 

• BEVERAGE (noun)
  The noun BEVERAGE has 1 sense:

1. any liquid suitable for drinking

  Familiarity information: BEVERAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEVERAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any liquid suitable for drinking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

beverage; drink; drinkable; potable

Context example:

may I take your beverage order?

Hypernyms ("beverage" is a kind of...):

liquid (a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure)

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beverage"):

smoothie (a thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milk)

drinking water (water suitable for drinking)

tea-like drink (a beverage that resembles tea but is not made from tea leaves)

tea (a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water)

coffee; java (a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans)

soft drink (nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated))

mate (South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate)

ade; fruit drink (a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice)

fruit crush; fruit juice (drink produced by squeezing or crushing fruit)

chocolate; cocoa; drinking chocolate; hot chocolate (a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot)

cider; cyder (a beverage made from juice pressed from apples)

fizz (an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic))

milk (a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings)

refresher (a drink that refreshes)

cooler (an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice)

mixer (club soda or fruit juice used to mix with alcohol)

ginger beer (carbonated slightly alcoholic drink flavored with fermented ginger)

near beer (drink that resembles beer but with less than 1/2 percent alcohol)

oenomel (wine mixed with honey)

hydromel (honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented)

alcohol; alcoholic beverage; alcoholic drink; inebriant; intoxicant (a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent)

potion (a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage)

wish-wash (any thin watery drink)

 Context examples 

Participants completed at least two 24-hour online validated dietary questionnaires, designed to measure usual intake of 3,300 different food and beverage items and were followed up for a maximum of 9 years (2009-2018).

(Possible link found between sugary drinks, cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The industry concerned with processing, preparing, preserving, distributing, and serving of foods and beverages.

(Food Industry, NCI Thesaurus)

Both male and female consumption of more than two caffeinated beverages a day also was associated with an increased hazard ratio: 1.74 for females and 1.73 for males.

(Couples’ pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk, NIH)

N-Nitrosomethylvinylamine has been found in several vegetables, cheeses, meats, alcoholic beverages and fruits.

(N-Nitrosomethylvinylamine, NCI Thesaurus)

A high-carbohydrate diet includes such foods as pasta, breads, cookies, and sugar-sweetened beverages.

(Gene mutation points to new way to fight diabetes, obesity, heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

Fermented soybean protein beverage is reported to exhibit immunostimulatory, anti-viral, pro-apoptotic, anti-angiogenic, anti-proliferative, and anti-inflammatory activities and to enhance the cytotoxic effects of natural killer (NK) cells.

(Fermented Soybean Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The tool typically consists of a list of foods and beverage items.

(Food Frequency Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Drinking nutrition beverages or formulas and tubefeeding are forms of enteral nutrition.

(Enteral nutrition, NCI Dictionary)

A single serving of a beverage; any liquid suitable for drinking.

(Drink, NCI Thesaurus)

This beverage may have a beneficial effect on overall nutrition and the immune system.

(Carrot/Jilin Ginseng/Licorice Root/Tangerine Peel/Soy Beverage, NCI Thesaurus)