drinking
drink·ing
drinking · drinkings
пиття
питьё
Trinken
An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beveragesAn act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
/ˈdɹɪŋk.ɪŋ/
Meaning
1 sensesAn act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
Some say drinking is a vice.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:drinking.
Trinken
питьёpitʹjó
питтяpyttja
the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
Translations
6 languagesУкраїнська
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English [Term?]. By surface analysis, drink + -ing.Inherited from Middle English [Term?]. By surface analysis, drink + -ing.
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Forms
plural: drinkingsSynonyms
7 synonymsClose in meaning
- the act of consuming liquids:imbibingimbibition
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess:drinkboozingdrunkennesscrapulence
Word family
22 related wordsRelateddrink
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.