SAKI
Dictionary entry overview: What does Saki mean?
• SAKI (noun)
The noun SAKI has 3 senses:
1. British writer of short stories (1870-1916)
2. Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot
3. small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail
Familiarity information: SAKI used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• SAKI (noun)
Meaning:
British writer of short stories (1870-1916)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
H. H. Munro; Hector Hugh Munro; Munro; Saki
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Meaning:
Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
rice beer; sake; saki
Hypernyms ("saki" is a kind of...):
alcohol; alcoholic beverage; inebriant; intoxicant (a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent)
Domain region:
Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)
Holonyms ("saki" is a substance of...):
rice (annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper)
Meaning:
Small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("saki" is a kind of...):
New World monkey; platyrrhine; platyrrhinian (hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails)
Holonyms ("saki" is a member of...):
genus Pithecia; Pithecia (sakis)
