drink
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola drink (“to drink”), North Frisian drank, drainke, drink, drinke (“to drink”), West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Alemannic German trénge, trenhu, trinche, tringhien, trinke (“to drink”), Bavarian dringa, trinckn, trinkhn, trinkn (“to drink”), Cimbrian trinkan, trinkhan (“to drink”), Dutch and Low German drinken (“to drink”), German and Mòcheno trinken (“to drink”), Luxembourgish drénken (“to drink”), Yiddish טרינקען (trinken, “to drink”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Elfdalian drikka (“to drink”), Faroese and Icelandic drekka (“to drink”), Jutish drenk (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka, drikke (“to drink”), Swedish dricka (“to drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan, “to drink”), Vandalic drincan (“to drink”), French trinquer (“to booze, drink alcohol”), Italian trincare (“to knock back (a drink)”), Spanish trincar (“to get drunk”).
Inflected forms:
form: drinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drank
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drunk
pos: verb
tags: Southern-US
past
form: drinked
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: drunk
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drunken
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: drank
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: drinked
pos: verb
tags: archaic
nonstandard
obsolete
participle
past
form: drinken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dranken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dhrink
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: drank
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: drinck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: drinke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thrink
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: drinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dhrink
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: drank
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: drinck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: drinke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thrink
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He drank the water I gave him.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
[…] There liues ſhee with the bleſſed Gods in bliſſe: / There drinks the Nectar with Ambroſia mixt […]
It was he who proposed the bowl of punch, which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty’s room, and which Gumbo concocted with exquisite skill.
That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
gloss: To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: metonymically
transitive
examples: Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.
gloss: To consume alcoholic beverages.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You've been drinking, haven't you?
No thanks, I don't drink.
Everyone who is drinking is drinking, but not everyone who is drinking is drinking.
I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.
Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.
You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.
gloss: To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let the purple violets drink the stream.
gloss: To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
to drink the cooler air
gloss: To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Drink to lofty hopes that cool —
Visions of a perfect State : Drink we, last, the public fool,
Frantic love and frantic hate.
gloss: To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: At the same time were great Acclamations & they drunk Damnation to Dʳ. Sacheverell, Mʳ Tilly, and all the Dʳˢ friends.
I ought not to have neglected a request of one of my correspondents so long as I have; but I dare say I have given him time to add practice to profession. He sent me some time ago a bottle or two of excellent wine to drink the health of a gentleman had by the penny post advertised him of an egregious error in his conduct. […]
gloss: To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
pos: verb
tags: archaic
obsolete
transitive
examples: Had our great Pall ace the capacity
To Campe this hoſt, we all would ſup together,
And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate
Which promiſes Royall perill, Trumpetters
With brazen dinne blaſt you the Cittics eare,
Make mingle with our ratling Tabourines,
That heauen and earth may ſtrike their ſounds together,
Applauding our approach.
gloss: To smoke, as tobacco.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: And some men now live ninety yeeres and past,
Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.
gloss: Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
pos: verb
gloss: A beverage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I’d like another drink please.
gloss: Drinks in general; something to drink.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink
These sources do not, however, state why the drink is called lambswool. The name comes from the way the apples are roasted until they split open, and their pulp froths over the skin; this is used to float on top of the bowl of drink.
gloss: A type of beverage (usually mixed).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My favourite drink is the White Russian.
gloss: A (served) alcoholic beverage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Can I buy you a drink?
gloss: The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was about to take a drink from his root beer.
gloss: Alcoholic beverages in general.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
By the late twenties father has died of drink and his wife is left to raise their two sons.
The face of work is a drunk man in the same chair, chewing on the same bone for five thousand nights. The face of work is a, coffee cup in hand, frustrated: "You don't get it. They all don't get it. You don't understand, man." Daddy's on the drink again.
[…] she was indeed Amanda in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
gloss: A standard drink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A drink of wine is about 5 ounces
And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3 drinks a day?
gloss: Any body of water.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!
When in mid-Channel the speed slowed and I was informed by A.C. Russell that another dinghy had been spotted. This turned out to contain a Canadian fighter pilot who had been in the drink for three days and was in rather a bad way. He said he had seen all the aircraft flying over in the two days before D-Day and since, but no one had sighted him.
In seconds, we went from sitting in a boat to threading ice-cold water. I wasn't wearing a life jacket and am not the best paddler, but there I was, in the drink, splashing around.
If the planes couldn't make it, they would go in the drink, eject their rubber lifeboats, inflate them, climb in, and pray for the Navy to pick them up before the Germans did.
gloss: A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the rain with it well inland. And we're likely going to be talking about a cyclone all the way through Friday as it slowly weakens, eventually washing that moisture out into a front going through the south. It means the southeast is getting a drink but W.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map].
gloss: Amount.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: He [a sea-serpent] was giant, massive. A huge drink of man-eater. But even now, you know, I could take him.
Synonyms: drink
hydrate
imbibe
wet one's whistle
wet one's beak
alcoholic beverage
beverage
Related words: drunken
drunk
dranken
beverage
eat
drinkable
drinkware
mouthful
Derived words: antidrink
B-drink
be the worse for drink
black drink
call drink
can I buy you a drink
cold drink money
cooldrink
dew-drink
drank
drink alert
drink-driver
drink-driving
drinkery
drinkfest
drink hail
drinkie
drinkless
drink link
drinkmaking
drinkologist
drinkometer
drink problem
drink run
drinks cabinet
drink shop
drinksie
drinks o'clock
drinks table
drinks trolley
drinkstuff
drinks waiter
drink table
drink walking
Drinkwater
drinkwater
drinkworthy
drive to drink
energy drink
fizzy drink
fountain drink
functional drink
gangly drink of water
hard drink
have drink taken
herbal drink
hold one's drink
in drink
interdrink
in the drink
junk drink
long drink
long drink of water
meat and drink
medium drink
mixed drink
orange drink
pre-drink
predrinks
pre-drinks
rail drink
red drink
roots drink
scrawny drink of water
short drink
skinny drink of water
soft drink
sports drink
standard drink
straw that stirs the drink
strong drink
Swedish drink
table drink
take to drink
tall drink
tall drink of water
the big drink
the drinks are on me
top-heavy with drink
well drink
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: drank
lang: Afrikaans
word: drankie
lang: Basque
word: edari
lang: Bulgarian
word: напитка
roman: napitka
lang: Catalan
word: beguda
lang: Chechen
word: малар
roman: malar
lang: Czech
word: nápoj
lang: Czech
word: drink
lang: Czech
word: pití
lang: Danish
word: drink
lang: Dutch
word: drank
lang: Esperanto
word: trinkaĵo
lang: Esperanto
word: drinkaĵo
lang: Estonian
word: jook
lang: Estonian
word: drink
lang: Ewe
word: nunono
lang: Finnish
word: juoma
lang: Finnish
word: drinkki
lang: French
word: boisson
lang: German
word: Getränk
lang: German
word: Trank
lang: German
word: Trunk
lang: Greek
word: ποτό
roman: potó
lang: Hungarian
word: ital
lang: Ingrian
word: jooma
lang: Irish
word: deoch
lang: Japanese
word: 飲料
roman: in'ryō
lang: Latin
word: potio
lang: Latin
word: potus
lang: Latvian
word: dzēriens
lang: Macedonian
word: пијалок
roman: pijalok
lang: Macedonian
word: пијачка
roman: pijačka
lang: Malayalam
word: പാനീയം
roman: pānīyaṁ
lang: Marathi
word: पेय
roman: pey
lang: Old English
word: drenc
lang: Old English
word: wǣt
lang: Persian
word: نوشابه
roman: nôšâba
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Drunk
lang: Polish
word: napój
lang: Portuguese
word: bebida
lang: Portuguese
word: coquetel
lang: Russian
word: напи́ток
roman: napítok
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: напитак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пиће
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: napitak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: piće
lang: Spanish
word: bebida
lang: Swahili
word: kinywaji
lang: Swedish
word: dryck
lang: Tagalog
word: inumin
lang: Turkish
word: içecek
lang: Turkish
word: meşrubat
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: شربت
roman: şerbet
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: شراب
roman: şarab
lang: Vietnamese
word: đồ uống
lang: Vietnamese
word: thức uống