adj
Meaning 1
Suitable to drink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- drinking water
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
drinking
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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drĭngk′ĭng
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Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland: /ˈdɹɪŋk.ɪŋ/
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New-Zealand: /ˈdɹəŋk.əŋ/
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rhymes with -ɪŋkɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: D R IH1 NG K IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Used to drink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a drinking glass
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Addicted to alcohol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Are they a drinking person?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Pertaining to alcohol consumption, especially in excess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- drinking companions
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Some say drinking is a vice.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:drinking.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: potation
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
present participle and gerund of drink
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- drink was his downfall
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: drink, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intemperance, intemperateness
Narrower terms: drinking bout
noun
Meaning 8
the act of consuming liquids
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
Narrower terms: gulping, swilling, guzzling, potation
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English [Term?]. By surface analysis, drink + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: شُرْب (šurb) — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Chechen: малар (malar) — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Czech: pití — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Finnish: juominen — act or session by which drink is consumed
- French: boire — act or session by which drink is consumed
- German: Trinken — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Greek: πόση (pósi) — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Greek: πιοτό (piotó) — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Hebrew: שתייה (sh'tiyá) — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Hungarian: ivás — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Icelandic: drykkja — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Indonesian: peminuman — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Korean: 마시기 (masigi) — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Northern Kurdish: vexwarin — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Malay: peminuman — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Malayalam: കുടിക്കൽ (kuṭikkal) — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Norwegian: drikking — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Polish: picie — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Russian: питьё (pitʹjó) — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Spanish: escabio — act or session by which drink is consumed
- Ukrainian: пиття (pyttja) — act or session by which drink is consumed
Real reading context