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MARTINI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does martini mean?
• MARTINI (noun)
The noun MARTINI has 1 sense:
1. a cocktail made of gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth
Familiarity information: MARTINI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cocktail made of gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("martini" is a kind of...):
cocktail (a short mixed drink)
Meronyms (substance of "martini"):
gin (strong liquor flavored with juniper berries)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "martini"):
vodka martini (martini made with vodka rather than gin)
Context examples
The essential oil of Cymbopogon martini.
(Palmarosa Oil, NCI Thesaurus)
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