English > soft drink: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated). |
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| Narrower | birch beer | carbonated drink containing an extract from bark of birch trees |
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| bitter lemon | tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink |
| cola, dope | carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts ('dope' is a southernism in the United States) |
| cream soda | Sweet carbonated drink flavored with vanilla |
| egg cream | made of milk and flavored syrup with soda water |
| ginger ale, ginger pop | ginger-flavored carbonated drink |
| orange soda | orange-flavored carbonated drink |
| phosphate | carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid |
| pop, soda, soda pop, soda water, tonic | A sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring |
| root beer | carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs |
| sarsaparilla | carbonated drink flavored with an extract from sarsaparilla root or with birch oil and sassafras |
| tonic, tonic water, quinine water | lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine |
| Broader | beverage, drink, drinkable, potable | Any liquid / liquid suitable for drinking |
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| Spanish | bebida de fantasia, bebida, gaseosa, refresco, soda |
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| Catalan | refresc |
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