alcohol
alcohol Lexical Profile
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• noun
Any fermented or distilled beverage, such as wine, beer, or spirits, that contains ethanol and is capable of causing intoxication.
"The restaurant requires valid identification before serving alcohol to any patron."
A colorless, volatile, flammable liquid produced by the natural fermentation of sugars, widely used as an intoxicating constituent in beverages, an industrial solvent, a fuel, and an antiseptic.
"The nurse cleaned the skin around the wound with a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol."
Any of a broad class of organic chemical compounds in which one or more hydroxyl functional groups are bound to a saturated carbon atom.
"In the organic chemistry laboratory, the students synthesized a primary alcohol through reduction."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 16th century from Medieval Latin alcohol, from Arabic al-kuḥl ('kohl, a fine powder used as eyeliner'), as early chemists extended the term from refined powders purified by sublimation to distilled liquids and essences.