beverage
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ər noun
any potable liquid, especially one other than water, as tea, coffee, beer, or milk: The price of the meal includes a beverage.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French beverage, bevarage, equivalent to be(i)vre to drink + -age -age
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French beverage, bevarage, equivalent to be(i)vre to drink + -age -age
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beverage (ˈbɛvərɪdʒ, ˈbɛvrɪdʒ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| any drink, usually other than water | |
| [C13: from Old French bevrage, from beivre to drink, from Latin bibere] | |
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Beverage
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
beverage
mid-13c., from Anglo-Fr. beverage, from O.Fr. boivre "to drink" (Mod.Fr. boire; from L. bibere "to imbibe;" see imbibe) + -age, suffix forming mass or abstract nouns.
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Example sentences
We honestly thought it was a tie-in commercial for some electrolyte-rich energy beverage.
Usually, hot barley tea was the accompanying beverage.
Below are commonly asked questions regarding the carbonated beverage tax.
The food and beverage industry was asked to change how they market to kids.
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