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DISTILLERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does distillery mean?
• DISTILLERY (noun)
The noun DISTILLERY has 1 sense:
1. a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation
Familiarity information: DISTILLERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
distillery; still
Hypernyms ("distillery" is a kind of...):
industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)
Meronyms (parts of "distillery"):
Coffey still (a still consisting of an apparatus for the fractional distillation of ethanol from fermentation on an industrial scale)
Derivation:
distill (undergo the process of distillation)
distill (extract by the process of distillation)
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