REFRESHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does refreshment mean? 

• REFRESHMENT (noun)
  The noun REFRESHMENT has 2 senses:

1. snacks and drinks served as a light meal

2. activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation

  Familiarity information: REFRESHMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFRESHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Snacks and drinks served as a light meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

bite; collation; snack (a light informal meal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

recreation; refreshment

Context example:

days of joyous recreation with his friends

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

rejuvenation (the act of restoring to a more youthful condition)

Derivation:

refresh (become or make oneself fresh again)

refresh (make (to feel) fresh)

 Context examples 

The bread and cheese was presently brought in and distributed, to the high delight and refreshment of the whole school.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And did she not suppose her friend might be glad of some refreshment after so much exercise?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Amy, who was handed about like refreshments, returned to the parlor on Father Laurence's arm.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I hope, gentlemen, that you will come in and have some refreshment.

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

She danced next with an officer, and had the refreshment of talking of Wickham, and of hearing that he was universally liked.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I then took some refreshment, and went to my rest.

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

They all felt the refreshment of it, and for some time could only walk and admire.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

One of them was always taking refreshment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The refreshment of Randalls was absolutely necessary.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The air, besides, was fresh and stirring, and this, under the sheer sunbeams, was a wonderful refreshment to our senses.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)