Definition of
Drink
- (noun, act) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
- (noun, act) the act of swallowing
he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips - (noun, food) any liquid suitable for drinking
- (noun, food) a single serving of a beverage
likes a drink before dinner - (noun, object) any large deep body of water
- (verb, cognition) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- (verb, consumption) take in liquids
The children like to drink soda - (verb, consumption) consume alcohol
- (verb, consumption) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- (verb, consumption) propose a toast to
Let's drink to the New Year
via WordNet, Princeton University
Synonyms of Drink
beverage, booze, boozing, crapulence, deglutition, drink in, drinkable, drinking, drunkenness, fuddle, imbibe, pledge, potable, salute, swallow, toast, tope, wassail
Alternate forms of Drink
Derivations: drink, drinker, drinking, drunkard
Hyponyms: ade, aerophagia, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, bar hop, belt down, bib, bolt down, carry, chaser, chocolate, cider, claret, cocoa, coffee, cooler, cyder, down, draft, drain the cup, draught, drink down, drink up, drinking bout, drinking chocolate, drinking water, eye opener, fizz, float, frappe, fruit crush, fruit drink, fruit juice, ginger beer, give, guggle, gulp, gurgle, guzzle, hair of the dog, hit it up, hold, hot chocolate, hydromel, ice-cream float, ice-cream soda, inebriant, inebriate, intoxicant, java, kill, lap, lap up, libation, lick, mate, milk, milk shake, milkshake, mixer, near beer, nightcap, oenomel, pledge, pop, port, posset, potation, potion, pour down, pub-crawl, quaff, refresher, sangaree, sangria, shake, shandy, shandygaff, sillabub, sip, smoothie, soak, soft drink, souse, stirrup cup, suck, sundowner, swig, swill, swill down, syllabub, tank, tea, tea-like drink, tipple, toast, toss off, whiskey neat, whiskey on the rocks, whisky neat, whisky on the rocks, wine, wish-wash
Hypernyms: absorb, body of water, consume, consumption, engross, engulf, food, habituate, have, helping, honor, honour, immerse, ingest, ingestion, intake, intemperance, intemperateness, liquid, nutrient, plunge, portion, reward, serving, soak up, steep, take, take in, uptake, use, water
Origin of the word Drink
- O.E. drincan "to drink," also "to swallow up, engulf" (class III strong verb; past tense dranc, pp. druncen), from P.Gmc. *drengkan, of uncertain origin.
"Semantically the deriv. fr. 'draw' (cf. N.E. take a draught, Lat. ducere pocula, sucos, etc.) is the most attractive, and so ultimate connection with O.E. dragan… more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like Drink
dairying, daring, darning, daydreaming, dearness, deer mouse, derange, dermic, dermis, determining, deterrence, diadromous, dithering, doddering, dormancy, dormouse, drainage, draining, drawing, dreaminess, dreaming, dreariness, drench, drimys, drms, dromaius, droning, drumming, drunk, dryness, dude ranch, durance, durango
via soundex() Hash Matches