LIQUEUR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal

Synonyms:

cordial; liqueur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("liqueur" is a kind of...):

alcohol; alcoholic beverage; alcoholic drink; inebriant; intoxicant (a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liqueur"):

sambuca (an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice)

ratafee; ratafia (sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds)

pousse-cafe (small drink served after dinner (especially several liqueurs poured carefully so as to remain in separate layers))

Pernod ((registered trademark) a liqueur flavored with anise)

pastis (similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood)

maraschino; maraschino liqueur (distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries)

kummel (liqueur flavored with caraway seed or cumin)

orange liqueur (liqueur flavored with orange)

Galliano (golden Italian liqueur flavored with herbs)

Drambuie (a sweet Scotch whisky liqueur)

creme de fraise (strawberry-flavored liqueur)

creme de menthe (sweet green or white mint-flavored liqueur)

creme de cacao (sweet liqueur flavored with vanilla and cacao beans)

coffee liqueur (coffee-flavored liqueur)

Chartreuse (aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France)

benedictine (a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks)

anisette; anisette de Bordeaux (liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed)

amaretto (an Italian almond liqueur)

absinth; absinthe (strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise)