soft drink

American  

noun

• soft drinks
  plural

1. a beverage that is not alcoholic or intoxicating and is usually carbonated, as root beer or ginger ale.

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soft drink British  

noun

1. a nonalcoholic drink, usually cold

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• soft drinks
  plural

Etymology

Origin of soft drink

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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soft drink

When the war was won, the great boom in Coca-Cola’s international expansion began, fueled by a desire for the soft drink by people who had sampled it in far-flung places near the war-zone plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

For lunch and dinner, customers can choose from McChicken sandwiches, McDouble burgers, four-piece chicken McNuggets, small fries, and a medium soft drink.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

For Coca-Cola, sparkling soft drink volumes were flat for the quarter, while trademark Coca-Cola volume grew 1%.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026

While there are the usual array of snack food and soft drink companies that will appearin the commercial breaks, viewers will also see a spurt in pharmaceutical ads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

And every year they took the leftovers—the fat pieces of meat, the rice and beans, the bottles of soft drink and maltina and beer—home with them afterward.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Related Words

• cola
• soda
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