POTABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potable mean? 

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

1. any liquid suitable for drinking

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

• POTABLE (adjective)
  The adjective POTABLE has 1 sense:

1. suitable for drinking

  Familiarity information: POTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POTABLE (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 ("potable" 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 "potable"):

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)

Derivation:

potable (suitable for drinking)

• POTABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suitable for drinking

Synonyms:

drinkable; potable

Derivation:

potable (any liquid suitable for drinking)

 Context examples 

This species is motile, oxidase and indole negative, is fermentative and is most commonly isolated from animals, the environment, and potable water.

(Escherichia vulneris, NCI Thesaurus)

It could be made potable with additional treatment, such as chlorination or UV light.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

Potable water for consumption.

(Drinking Water, NCI Thesaurus)