noun
Meaning 1
plural of spirit
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
spirits
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈspɪɹɪts/
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noun
Meaning 2
Distilled alcoholic beverages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, plural, plural-only
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hard liquor, hard drink, liquor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hard drink, liquor, drink, beverage
verb
Meaning 3
third-person singular simple present indicative of spirit
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: liquor, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: alcohol, alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant
Narrower terms: aqua vitae, ardent spirits, aquavit, akvavit, arrack, arak, bitters, brandy, gin, ouzo, rum, schnapps, schnaps, mescal, tequila, vodka, whiskey, whisky, firewater, lacing
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كُحُول (kuḥūl) — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Arabic: خَمْر (ḵamr) — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Czech: destilát — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Czech: lihovina — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Danish: likør — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Danish: spiritus — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Esperanto: alkoholaĵo — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Esperanto: likvoro — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Finnish: viina — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- French: spiritueux — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Greek: οινοπνευματώδη (oinopnevmatódi) — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Hungarian: alkohol — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Hungarian: szesz — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Hungarian: szeszes ital — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Hungarian: rövidital — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Ingrian: viina — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Irish: biotáille — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Latvian: spirts — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Norwegian: sprit — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Persian: عرق ('araq) — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Polish: napój alkoholowy — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Portuguese: destilados — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Romanian: spirt — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Romanian: spirturi — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Russian: спирт (spirt) — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Spanish: licor — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Swahili: spiriti — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Swedish: sprit — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
- Thai: สุรา (sù-raa) — strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
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