beverage
[bev-er-ij, bev-rij]
- any potable liquid, especially one other than water, as tea, coffee, beer, or milk: The price of the meal includes a beverage.
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Origin of beverage
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French beverage, bevarage, equivalent to be(i)vre to drink + -age -age
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Examples from the Web for beverage
Contemporary Examples
And, with Coca-Cola announcing the launch of a new milk product, the beverage could be back in our hands before we know it.
PG has been used in more than 4,000 food, beverage, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products for more than 50 years.
Even food and beverage companies are utilizing 3D printing to help engineer new products.
It can spread through a sneeze, cough, sharing a beverage or speaking up close with someone who has the disease.
A Saudi Arabian television ad for Viagra shows a man struggling to push a straw through the lid of his beverage.
Historical Examples
It may also be diluted with other liquids and used for a beverage.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
The minister smiled and denied acquaintanceship with the New England beverage.
Keziah CoffinJoseph C. Lincoln
Why do you exclude me, sir, from the nation of this beverage?
The Lion's SkinRafael Sabatini
You are not drinking wine, your beverage is a solution of copper batzen in vinegar!'
A Day's RideCharles James Lever
We heard, afterwards, that the beverage had produced no effect.
beverage
- any drink, usually other than water
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Word Origin
C13: from Old French bevrage, from beivre to drink, from Latin bibere
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Word Origin and History for beverage
n.
mid-13c., from Anglo-French beverage, Old French bevrage, from Old French boivre "to drink" (Modern French boire; from Latin bibere "to imbibe;" see imbibe) + -age, suffix forming mass or abstract nouns.
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