Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Related to or resulting from alcohol.
- adjective Containing or preserved in alcohol.
- adjective Suffering from alcoholism.
- noun A person who drinks alcoholic substances habitually and to excess or who suffers from alcoholism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of alcohol.
- Containing or using alcohol: as, an alcoholic thermometer.
- noun One who indulges to excess in alcoholic beverages, or who is suffering from the systemic effects of alcohol.
- noun A remedy the chief therapeutic value of which depends upon the presence of alcohol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.
- noun Alcoholic liquors.
- adjective Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person
addicted toalcohol . - noun One who
abuses alcohol. - adjective Of or
pertaining to alcohol. - adjective Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or affected by
alcoholism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective addicted to alcohol
- adjective characteristic of or containing alcohol
- noun a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
Etymologies
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Examples
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When doctors use the term alcoholic liver disease, they are referring to a specific disease process that is made up of four distinct, advancing stages of liver damage, beginning with something called fatty liver and, if unchecked, progressing to inflammation of the liver, or alcoholic hepatitis.
DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001
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We stated at the beginning of our Memoir of 1860 that: "We apply the term alcoholic to that fermentation which sugar undergoes under the influence of the ferment known as BEER YEAST."
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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We stated at the beginning of our Memoir of 1860 that: We apply the term alcoholic to that fermentation which sugar undergoes under the influence of the ferment known as beer yeast.
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Then why does the word "alcoholic" imply negativity?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Limari Colon 2011
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Munny, a recovering alcoholic, is now about to become the monster he once was – the man who killed women, children and everything that walks or crawled at one time or another.
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Private-label alcoholic beverages made up less than 1% of alcohol sales in the retail outlets tracked by Nielsen last year, while store brands accounted for 17% of all items sold.
Private-Label Beers Take a Shot at Earning Joe Sixpack's Respect David Kesmodel 2011
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Both Big Flats and Buck Range Light were created for the retailers by Winery Exchange Inc., a Novato, Calif., firm that develops private-label alcoholic beverages for stores in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Private-Label Beers Take a Shot at Earning Joe Sixpack's Respect David Kesmodel 2011
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Itis a form of alcohol, C2H5OH, found in alcoholic beverages and also used as an additive in gasoline to produce gasohol.
Ethanol 2008
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The opinion of a twice convicted underage alcoholic, is worthless.
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After his release from the psychiatric ward, he becomes a drug addict and alcoholic, is on the verge of madness, and wanders in the Hospital from time to time thinking he is still a surgeon, and the Staff is accustomed to this and tells him gently to go home.
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