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orangeade

orangeade

1 4.3
A sweet cold drink made from orange juice and water
  • noun
  • /ˌɔrɪnˈgeɪd/
translation icon : naranjada
  • I bet some rat fink spiked my orangeade.

Examples

  • Orangeade ¶ ¶ And a circus parade ¶ And you'll be hitting your speed.

  • There's orangeade and lemonade...

  • At home, the dairy truck would be coming by with milk and orangeade.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • - Orangeade.

  • "You can have iced coffee, iced tea, or orangeade."

    Fiction book (2000)
  • He drank too much orangeade, chattering easily, incessantly, his words like grain filling out a silo, sort of amiably nudging here, there, and back again.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • He finds himself melting eight of the little tablets in a tablespoon of water, just like she used to do, and then swallowing the medicine serenely, relishing its orangeade pungency.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Natividad felt dry, and she tasted the orangeade, and with a shudder, she relived that prepubertal halcyon of her daughter when at the same time she would remonstrate with la Carmen and foster her defiance.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • On a hot day, I love to sip on chilled orangeade to stay refreshed.

  • The party served orangeade alongside snacks for the guests.

How Sweet

orangeade
1 4.3
orange juice
91 1.0
unsweetened
7 3.0

Surface Forms

orangeade singular
orangeades plural

Morphology

orangeade = orange (transparent) = orange + ade

Clearly formed from 'orange' + the drink-forming suffix '-ade' (like 'lemonade'), so learners can infer it denotes a drink made from oranges.

Etymology

Orangeade comes from the fruit orange plus the ending -ade, as in lemonade, so it literally means a 'sweet drink' made from oranges.