SAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sake mean? 

• SAKE (noun)
  The noun SAKE has 3 senses:

1. a reason for wanting something done

2. Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot

3. the purpose of achieving or obtaining

  Familiarity information: SAKE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reason for wanting something done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

interest; sake

Context example:

in the common interest

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

benefit; welfare (something that aids or promotes well-being)

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

behalf (for someone's benefit (usually expressed as 'in behalf' rather than 'on behalf' and usually with a possessive))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

rice beer; sake; saki

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

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

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

Holonyms ("sake" is a substance of...):

rice (annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The purpose of achieving or obtaining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

for the sake of argument

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

aim; design; intent; intention; purpose (an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions)

 Context examples 

I wish I could reason like you, for his sake and my own.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

No, sir, let them do their worst upon me, but for heaven’s sake, Mr. Holmes, find some way of keeping my poor Mary out of the courts.

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

And as to my father, I really should not have thought that he, who has kept himself single so long for our sakes, need be suspected now.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise’s sake.

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

He is anxious to get you there for my mother's sake.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had induced her to place herself, for his sake, in a situation of extreme difficulty and uneasiness, and it should have been his first object to prevent her from suffering unnecessarily.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He could not hope for a meal at Ruth's, for she was away to San Rafael on a two weeks' visit; and for very shame's sake he could not go to his sister's.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then, you could dare censure for my sake?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She gently turned his head away, saying, as she stroked the wavy hair which had been allowed to grow for her sake—how touching that was, to be sure!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)