BRANDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brandy mean? 

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

1. distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRANDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

booze; hard drink; hard liquor; John Barleycorn; liquor; spirits; strong drink (an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented)

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

eau de vie (strong coarse brandy)

applejack (distilled from hard cider)

Calvados (dry apple brandy made in Normandy)

Armagnac (dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France)

Cognac (high quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France)

grappa (Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing)

kirsch (from fermented juice of black morello cherries)

marc (made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing)

slivovitz (a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans)

Holonyms ("brandy" is a substance of...):

ratafee; ratafia (sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds)

pink lady (a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice)

stinger (a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy)

claret cup (a punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit)

 Context examples 

Then, she turned faint; and was so very ill that they were obliged to give her cherry brandy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were lighting the lamps as I came back with the brandy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was back in a moment, and I smelt a strong reek of brandy as he passed me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think, Watson, a brandy and soda would do him no harm.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can't hit the name on 't; well, you get me a bottle of wine, Jim—this here brandy's too strong for my head.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Quick!" he said. "Bring the brandy."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Pray give him a half-pint of warmish milk with six drops of pure brandy in it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We accordingly brought him back to the deck and restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy and forcing him to swallow a small quantity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)