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SOFT DRINK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soft drink mean? 

SOFT DRINK (noun)
  The noun SOFT DRINK has 1 sense:

1. nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated)play

  Familiarity information: SOFT DRINK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOFT DRINK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("soft drink" is a kind of...):

beverage; drink; drinkable; potable (any liquid suitable for drinking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soft drink"):

pop; soda; soda pop; soda water; tonic (a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring)

birch beer (carbonated drink containing an extract from bark of birch trees)

bitter lemon (tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink)

cola; dope (carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts ('dope' is a southernism in the United States))

cream soda (sweet carbonated drink flavored with vanilla)

egg cream (made of milk and flavored syrup with soda water)

ginger ale; ginger pop (ginger-flavored carbonated drink)

orange soda (orange-flavored carbonated drink)

phosphate (carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid)

root beer (carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs)

sarsaparilla (carbonated drink flavored with an extract from sarsaparilla root or with birch oil and sassafras)

quinine water; tonic; tonic water (lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine)


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