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DISTILLERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distillery mean? 

DISTILLERY (noun)
  The noun DISTILLERY has 1 sense:

1. a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillationplay

  Familiarity information: DISTILLERY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISTILLERY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

distillery; still

Hypernyms ("distillery" is a kind of...):

industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)

Meronyms (parts of "distillery"):

Coffey still (a still consisting of an apparatus for the fractional distillation of ethanol from fermentation on an industrial scale)

Derivation:

distill (undergo the process of distillation)

distill (extract by the process of distillation)


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