ale
A beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurizedA beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
» Pale ale is a low-alcohol beer.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)A beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
Ale
эльelʹ
ельelʹ
(countable, dated, uncountable)A beer or beerlike drink made without hops.
(UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A rural festival where ale is drunk.
- a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
Examples
14 sentencesPale ale is a low-alcohol beer.
He began his meal by drinking half a glass of ale.
ruОн начал трапезу с полбокала пива.
deEr begann sein Essen mit einem halben Glas Bier.
Can I have a ginger ale?
What's the difference between ale and lager?
Some days later, they discovered that it had transformed into a drinkable light ale.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, fromFrom Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu (compare Dutch aal, Icelandic and Swedish öl (“beer”), Danish, Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk øl (“beer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- (“beer”), or *h₂elu- (“bitter”). Compare Russian ол (ol), Lithuanian alùs, Armenian օղի (ōġi); compare also Latin alum (“comfrey”), alūta (“tawed leather”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).
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plural: alesSynonyms
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