BEER
Dictionary entry overview: What does beer mean?
• BEER (noun)
The noun BEER has 1 sense:
1. a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
Familiarity information: BEER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BEER (noun)
Meaning:
A general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("beer" is a kind of...):
brew; brewage (drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beer"):
draft beer; draught beer (beer drawn from a keg)
suds (a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces))
lager; lager beer (a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September)
ale (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)
