Other forms: sodas
Soda is a sweet fizzy drink. A can of soda, order a soda, soda and ice.
This is one of the sharpest British-American splits in everyday English. In America soda is the general word for any sweet fizzy drink, though pop is used in the Midwest and coke in the South. In Britain soda alone means soda water, which is plain and unsweetened, and the sweet ones are fizzy drinks or soft drinks. Note baking soda and washing soda, which are chemicals, and soda bread, which is raised with bicarbonate rather than yeast.
1nounsodaIn American English, a sweet fizzy drink.
“He drank three sodas and could not sleep.”
synonyms: soft drink, fizzy drink, pop
2nounplainPlain carbonated water.
“Whisky and soda, no ice.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
soda is a drink.
Also accepted in games: cola, soft drink, pop, fizzy drink
Italian soda named the plant burned to produce sodium carbonate, and the word later gave sodium its name. Soda water was named for the sodium bicarbonate first used to make it fizz, and the sweet drinks were named after the water.
Italian
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English, today
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Borrowed from Italian soda. From Italian soda. Q264554 is an an ellipsis of soda water.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA