alcohol - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'alcohol' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Alcohol

[ n.]

- An impalpable powder.
- The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
- Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
- A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

Meaning of 'alcohol' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . alcohol

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

Example in sentence:

alcohol (or drink) ruined him

Nearby Words:

alcade alcahest alcaic alcaid alcalde alcalimeter alcanna alcarraza alcarrazas alcayde

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Fetal alcohol syndrome
Fetal alcohol syndrome, which the most common cause of mental retardation in newborns, occurring when the mother uses alcohol

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