Contextualizebeta

ardent spirits

noun

Etymology

First attested 1471, from its inflammability; see etymology section of ardent.

Definitions

  1. Distilled alcoholic liquor such as whiskey, brandy, or vodka

    Distilled alcoholic liquor such as whiskey, brandy, or vodka; especially, strong variants thereof (higher-proof versions).

    • Near-synonyms: hard liquor, liquor (narrow sense), strong drink (narrow sense), hard drink (narrow sense), spirits

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ardent spirits. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA