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English
Soft drinks in a Virginia supermarket
Alternative forms
Etymology
So called in contrast to strong alcoholic beverages, which are "hard liquors ".
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Noun
soft drink (plural soft drinks )
Any non-alcoholic drink that is carbonated , and usually also sweet . ( In this sense, juice , milk , tea and coffee are not soft drinks. )
( broadly ) Any non-alcoholic drink.
1925 July – 1926 May , A[rthur] Conan Doyle , “(please specify the chapter number) ”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia , published April 2019:"And then they run to him with whisky, and so they teach him to rely on the bottle and you get another case of a drunken medium. I know them. You keep off it, Tom!" "Yes, one of our trade should stick to soft drinks ."
Antonyms
Hyponyms
coke ( most common term in the Southeastern US )
fizzy drink
lemonade
pop ( most common term in Canada and the upper West and upper Midwest of the US, including western WI, most of IL including Chicago, MI, IN, OH, WV and western PA )
soda ( most common term in HI, CA, eastern MO, southwestern IL, eastern WI and New England )
soda pop
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Translations
sweet, non-alcoholic carbonated beverage
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: ( carbonated ) مَشْرُوب غَازِيّ m ( mašrūb ḡāziyy )
Egyptian Arabic: حاجة ساقعة f ( ḥāga sáʔʕa ) , كازوزه f ( kazūza ) ( old fashioned ) , أزوزه f ( azūza ) ( old fashioned ) , بيبس m ( bebs ) ( slang )
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 汽水 ( hei3 seoi2 )
Hokkien: 汽水 (zh-min-nan) ( khì-chúi )
Mandarin: 軟性飲料 / 软性饮料 ( ruǎnxìng yǐnliào ) , 軟飲料 / 软饮料 (zh) ( ruǎnyǐnliào ) , 汽水 (zh) ( qìshuǐ )
Classical Nahuatl: tzopelātl
Danish: sodavand (da) , læskedrik (da) c
Dutch: frisdrank (nl) , prik (nl) , limonade , priklimonade (nl)
Dzongkha: བསིལ་འཐུང ( bsil 'thung ) , མངར་ཆུ ( mngar chu )
Esperanto: refreŝigaĵo , senalkoholaĵo
Estonian: karastusjook
Faroese: sodavatn n
Finnish: virvoitusjuoma (fi) , limonaati (fi) , limonadi (fi)
French: boisson gazeuse f , soda (fr) m
Galician: refresco (gl) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Erfrischungsgetränk (de) n , Limonade (de) f , Brause (de) f , Sprudel (de) m , Sprudelsaft m
Greek: αναψυκτικό (el) n ( anapsyktikó )
Hebrew: מַשְׁקֶה קַל (he) sg ( mashké kal ) , מַשְׁקָאוֹת קַלִּים pl ( mashkaót kalím )
Hindi: सोडा (hi) m ( soḍā ) , सोडाआ m ( soḍāā )
Hungarian: üdítő (hu) , üdítőital (hu)
Icelandic: gosdrykkur m
Ido: sodajo
Indonesian: minuman berbusa
Italian: bibita (it) f , bevanda gassata f
Japanese: 清涼飲料 (ja) ( せいりょういんりょう, seiryōinryō ) , 清涼飲料水 (ja) ( せいりょういんりょうすい, seiryōinryōsui ) , ソフトドリンク ( sofutodorinku )
Khmer: ភេសជ្ជ (km) ( phesachch )
Korean: 청량 음료(淸凉飮料) ( cheongnyang eumnyo )
Macedonian: гази́ран пи́јалак m ( gazíran píjalak ) , газо́за f ( gazóza )
Malay: minuman ringan
Maori: wai reka
Mongolian: хийжүүлсэн ундаа ( xiižüülsen undaa )
Navajo: tó dilchxoshí , tó łichxíʼí
Norwegian: brus (no) m
Persian: نوشابه گازدار (fa) ( nušâbe-ye gâzdâr )
Polish: napój gazowany (pl) m
Portuguese: refrigerante (pt) m , refresco (pt) m , soda (pt) f
Romanian: băutură răcoritoare , răcoritoare (ro)
Russian: безалкого́льный напи́ток m ( bezalkogólʹnyj napítok ) , ( carbonated ) газиро́ванный напи́ток m ( gaziróvannyj napítok )
Scottish Gaelic: deoch-lag f
Spanish: gaseosa (es) f , bebida f ( Chile ) , refresco m ( Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela ) , soda f ( Bolivia, Northern Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico ) , agua f ( Guatemala, colloquial - short for agua gaseosa ) , casera f ( Spain, colloquial ) , chesco m ( Mexico, colloquial ) , cola f ( Ecuador, colloquial ) , fresco m ( Venezuela, colloquial - especially regional and working-class usage ) , bebida de fantasia f
Swedish: läsk (sv) c , dricka (sv) c , lemonad (sv) c , brus (sv) c , läskedryck (sv)
Thai: น้ำอัดลม (th) ( náam-àt-lom )
Tok Pisin: loliwara
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: nước ngọt có ga , nước ngọt (vi)
any non-alcoholic beverage, such as Cola or milk
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