meads

noun

plural of mead
as in wines

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  1. wines
  2. liquors
  3. bottles
  4. alcohols
  5. spirits
  6. intoxicants
  7. sakes
  8. tipples
Noun
  • For many years these wines have represented some of the best price-quality value in Italian wine.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Multiple wines Fifteen red wines representing multiple regions will delight wine aficionados.
    — Terry Hagerty, Austin American Statesman, 9 Mar. 2026
Definition of wines
Noun
  • Bootleggers smuggling various liquors like whiskey and gin found that the soft drink was particularly good at making these spirits easier to drink.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026
  • Stay Zero Proof, located in Chinatown, doubles as a lounge and retail space — visitors can order from a menu of mocktails or browse a wide selection of non-alcoholic liquors and wines to sip or take home.
    — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
Definition of liquors
Noun
  • Stars are opening wineries and putting their names on bottles.
    — Emily Saladino, Washington Post, 17 July 2026
  • Investigators took swabs from two soda bottles collected from Brown’s trash, and sent the samples to the UNT lab for testing, according to the affidavit.
    — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
Definition of bottles
Noun
  • Sugar alcohols and artificial sweeteners are low-calorie alternatives to sugar that can be helpful for people managing diabetes or watching their weight.
    — Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 10 July 2026
  • Heavy stylers with alcohols can dry out the hair and scalp, causing product buildup that leads to dandruff-like flakes.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 18 June 2026
Definition of alcohols
Noun
  • Further lifting Toohey’s spirits is his former high school roommate Lachlan Olbrich.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
  • Space opened up and despite trailing, Argentine spirits were lifted.
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Definition of spirits
Noun
  • Four hundred years later, a merry band of scientists and entrepreneurs of mind-altering intoxicants are plunging even deeper into the diabolical by mechanizing DMT’s delivery via IV syringe pumps.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 16 July 2026
  • Licensed cannabis operators in states that have legalized marijuana tend to support the ban—they’re unhappy that hemp intoxicants face far less regulation and taxation than their products.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of intoxicants
Noun
  • The novelty-seeking robots that ignored the goal entirely, exploring for their own sakes, found their way out far more reliably.
    — Sophie Ren, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • There’s also a drinks list filled with Japanese whiskies and enticing cocktails, as well as a collection of sakes.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2026
Definition of sakes
Noun
  • Power brings a warmer and more wayward sensibility to such material than, say, the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose deadpan grids of coal tipples and water towers drained industrial structures of affect.
    — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 23 June 2026
  • The Whaler This boisterous eatery has been an institution in Salamanca since its establishment in the early 1800s, but a recent reinvigoration of the property means fine fare and top tipples match the camaraderie that spills out to the barrel-high-top tables out front.
    — Riley Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026
Definition of tipples
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