soda

[ soh-duh ]
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noun
  1. sodium, as in carbonate of soda.

  2. a drink made with soda water, flavoring, such as fruit or other syrups, and often ice cream, milk, etc.

  3. (in faro) the card turned up in the dealing box before one begins to play.

Origin of soda

1
1550–60; (<Italian ) <Medieval Latin <Arabic suwwādah kind of plant; compare Middle French soulde, soude

regional variation note For soda

7. See soda pop.

Other words from soda

  • so·da·less, adjective

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How to use soda in a sentence

  • The room was full of students eating ice cream and drinking coco-cola and ice cream sodas.

    Tramping on Life | Harry Kemp
  • I paused when the waitress delivered our sodas and waited until she got out of earshot, then finished.

    Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
  • I noticed you filling up on two ice cream sodas this morning, all right and ditto.

  • It assimilates best with purified pearl ash, on account of the freedom of this alkali from iron, which is present in most sodas.

  • Hazel had worried over the possibility of his having had another tilt with the Scotch and sodas.

    North of Fifty-Three | Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for soda

soda

/ (ˈsəʊdə) /


noun
  1. any of a number of simple inorganic compounds of sodium, such as sodium carbonate (washing soda), sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda)

  1. US and Canadian a fizzy drink

  2. the top card of the pack in faro

  3. a soda Australian slang something easily done; a pushover

Origin of soda

1
C16: from Medieval Latin, from sodanum barilla, a plant that was burned to obtain a type of sodium carbonate, perhaps of Arabic origin

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