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GINGER ALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ginger ale mean? 

GINGER ALE (noun)
  The noun GINGER ALE has 1 sense:

1. ginger-flavored carbonated drinkplay

  Familiarity information: GINGER ALE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GINGER ALE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Ginger-flavored carbonated drink

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

ginger ale; ginger pop

Hypernyms ("ginger ale" is a kind of...):

soft drink (nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated))

Meronyms (substance of "ginger ale"):

ginger; gingerroot (pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery)


 Context examples 


Whenever he encountered a chance shipmate, and there were many in San Francisco, he treated them and was treated in turn, as of old, but he ordered for himself root beer or ginger ale and good-naturedly endured their chaffing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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