Other forms: beverages
A beverage is a drink, in formal or trade usage. Hot beverages, the beverage industry, food and beverage.
Nobody offers a friend a beverage, since the word belongs to menus, airlines and industry reports. Food and beverage is the standard department name in every hotel in the world.
1nounbeverageA drink, in formal or trade usage.
“Hot and cold beverages are available from the trolley at the back of the train.”
beverage is a drink.
Old French bevrage comes from beivre, to drink, from Latin bibere.
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₃-
Latin
bibō
Old French
beverage
Middle English
beverage
English, today
beverage
Built from
From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA