Definitions for COCKTAIL
ˈkɒkˌteɪlcock·tail

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cocktailnoun

   a short mixed drink

2. cocktailnoun

   an appetizer served as a first course at a meal

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cocktailnoun

   A mixed alcoholic beverage.

   They visited a pub noted for the wide range of cocktails they serve.

2. cocktailnoun

   A mixture of other substances.

   "Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream of the chemical factory."

3. cocktailadjective

   festive, lively

   "now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music" - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. Etymology: many unproven stories exist. The word first appeared in 1806 (see citation below). The non-drink sense is by extension of the drink sense.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cocktail

   A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink. Most commonly, cocktails are either a single spirit or combination of spirits, mixed with other ingredients such as juices, flavored syrups, tonic water, shrubs, and bitters. Cocktails vary widely across regions of the world, and many websites publish both original recipes and their own interpretations of older and more famous cocktails.

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1. cocktail

   A cocktail is a type of mixed drink typically made with a combination of alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic ingredients such as juice, soda, or fruit garnishes. It can also include various types of spirits, liqueurs, flavorings, and sweeteners. Cocktails are often served in specific types of glassware and can be garnished with fruit slices, herbs, or other decorative items. They are a common feature in many social settings, particularly at bars and parties.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cocktailnoun

   a beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened

2. Cocktailnoun

   a horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins

3. Cocktailnoun

   a mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward

4. Cocktailnoun

   a species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Cocktail

   A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink that contains three or more ingredients—at least one of the ingredients must be a spirit, one sweet/sugary and one sour/bitter. Cocktails were originally a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. It is now often used for almost any mixed drink that contains alcohol, including mixers, mixed shots, etc. A cocktail today usually contains one or more kinds of spirit and one or more mixers, such as soda or fruit juice. Additional ingredients may be sugar, honey, milk, cream, and various herbs.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Cocktail

   Tradition has it that one of Montezuma’s nobles sent a draught of a new beverage concocted by him from the cactus plant to the Emperor by his daughter Xochitl. The Aztec monarch smiled, tasted it, gulped it down with a relish, and, it is said, afterwards married the girl; thenceforward this drink became the native tipple, and for centuries it bore the softened name of Octel. The corruption of Octel into Cocktail by the soldiers of the American Army when, under General Scott, they invaded Mexico, about sixty years ago, was easy.

Matched Categories

1. • Appetizer
   • Mixed Drink

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce COCKTAIL?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say COCKTAIL in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of COCKTAIL in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of COCKTAIL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of COCKTAIL in a Sentence

1. Martina Ferencova:

   Breweries are investing in new pub concepts primarily due to the annual decline in on-trade, draft beer, consumers are also demanding more. Besides the shift to home drinking, partly boosted by a ban on smoking in 2017, traditional pubs are also up against more wine and cocktail bars favored by some younger drinkers. A new electronic ordering system introduced in 2016 to track sales - and make sure pubs and restaurants paid all taxes due - also forced a number of pubs to go under. Currently, around 65 percent of the beer sold in The Czech Republic is in stores, a figure on the rise and one Prazdroj and other breweries believe will continue to increase. With domestic consumption tepid, breweries have looked to foreign markets to offset declines at home and exports jumped nearly 12 percent in 2018. But getting Czechs back to the pub remains key, beer makers and industry officials say.

2. Barack Obama:

   Some of the mythology about me being very professorial, removed, that stuff ... I think it has to do with me not schmoozing enough in Washington because I've got two kids, and it's true that I don't do the cocktail circuit.

3. Samia Ghali:

   It's got everything - prostitution, drugs trafficking, violence. It's a dangerous cocktail and we saw evidence of that today.

4. Nicolas Rivron:

   We pulled them together and discovered a cocktail of molecules that triggered them to self-organize into early embryo cells.

5. Le Nechet:

   Compared to the US or the UK, we didn't have a cocktail culture in France, you had to go to a luxury hotel, one of the city's famous 'palaces,' to drink a good cocktail. The first wave of 'street cocktail bars' arrived about five years ago, and now the scene is exploding here in Paris.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=COCKTAIL
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cocktail
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/COCKTAIL
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=COCKTAIL
7. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=COCKTAIL
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=COCKTAIL