juice

UK/d͡ʒuːs/US/d͡ʒus/

nounA12 meanings Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,195 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: juices

Juice is the liquid squeezed out of fruit. Orange at breakfast, lemon over fish, apple in a carton.

It covers vegetables too, and cooking uses it for the liquid that comes out of anything — the juices from a roast, meat left to rest in its own juice. The word has grown a set of informal senses that all mean power of some kind: electrical juice, and a runner with no juice left in their legs. As a verb, to juice something is to extract the liquid from it, and a juicer is the machine.

Definitions of juice

1nounjuiceThe liquid obtained from fruit or vegetables.A1~98%
“She drank a glass of orange juice.”
2nouncookingThe liquid that comes out of cooking meat.B1~2%
“Spoon the juices over the top.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 18 sentences found in the wild and placed 18 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

Where it comes from

Juice was soup first. Latin ius meant broth, soup or sauce, from a root to do with mixing food, so the word began in the kitchen rather than in the orchard.

Middle English
jus
English, today
juice

Built from

*yewH- · Proto-Indo-European — to mix (of meal preparation)

From Middle English jus. From Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin ius (“broth, soup, sauce”), from Proto-Indo-European yéwHs, from yewH- (“to mix (of meal preparation)”). a doublet of jus and ukha. In this sense, mostly displaced native Middle English sew (“juice”), from Old English sēaw (“juice, sap”) (> English sew (“juice, broth, gravy”)). Sense of "soft drink" most likely an an ellipsis of fizzy juice, another similarly common term in Scotland.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 27 of A Man Called Ove.

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juice in the wild

Orange juice is a primarily liquid extract of the orange tree fruit, produced by squeezing or reaming oranges.
Orange juice
A margarita is a cocktail of tequila, triple sec, lime juice, and sometimes simple syrup.
Margarita
Apple juice is one of the most common fruit juices globally, with world production led by China, Poland, the United States, and Germany.
Apple juice
Jamba, formerly known as Jamba Juice, is an American quick-service restaurant and juice bar chain that sells blended fruit and vegetable juices, smoothies, and other food products.
Jamba Juice
Coconut water (also coconut juice) is the clear liquid inside young coconuts (fruits of the coconut palm).
Coconut water

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Definitions of juice

1nounjuiceThe liquid obtained from fruit or vegetables.A1~98%

“She drank a glass of orange juice.”

2nouncookingThe liquid that comes out of cooking meat.B1~2%

“Spoon the juices over the top.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 18 sentences found in the wild and placed 18 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.