LIQUEUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liqueur mean? 

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

1. strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUEUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cordial; liqueur

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

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

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

Drambuie (a sweet Scotch whisky liqueur)

sambuca (an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice)

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

pousse-cafe (small drink served after dinner (especially several liqueurs poured carefully so as to remain in separate layers))

Pernod ((registered trademark) a liqueur flavored with anise)

pastis (similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood)

maraschino; maraschino liqueur (distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries)

kummel (liqueur flavored with caraway seed or cumin)

orange liqueur (liqueur flavored with orange)

Galliano (golden Italian liqueur flavored with herbs)

absinth; absinthe (strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise)

creme de fraise (strawberry-flavored liqueur)

creme de menthe (sweet green or white mint-flavored liqueur)

creme de cacao (sweet liqueur flavored with vanilla and cacao beans)

coffee liqueur (coffee-flavored liqueur)

Chartreuse (aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France)

benedictine (a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks)

anisette; anisette de Bordeaux (liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed)

amaretto (an Italian almond liqueur)

 Context examples 

This liqueur isn’t good for either of us, Charlie.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)