ale
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3.0
- noun
- /eɪl/
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- After a long day, he enjoyed a cold ale at the pub with friends.
- beer and ale
- red ale
So maybe that's something like a pilsner or a farm ale or something along those lines.
- So maybe that's something like a pilsner or a farm ale or something along those lines.
- And you can hang up your helmet and then go sort of drink some ale, listen to some music with the old lady.
- I've enjoyed ale in a pub, Smooth and delicious, but I couldn't drink it with food because it was too heavy and too bitter.
- But somebody who does love beer tried the pale ale and he said it was bomb.
- And so then that became its own genre of beer is India pale ales.
- So you get Bass Pale Ale and Old Peculiar and all these, these other cool things.
- OK, so looks like the Hourglass mineral ale one almost by double the amount.
Examples
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You grab a cup of ale and examine the array of teeth strung from the walls.
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No, I was just standing here at the bar, ordering my ale, and trying to remember them all.
Fiction book (1991) -
The story starts it goes on where they are sitting around drinking ale and talking.
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I was never given that cup of ale, you know.
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There was nothing to be learned at the first ale house, so they moved on to the next.
Fiction book (1991) -
And you can hang up your helmet and then go sort of drink some ale, listen to some music with the old lady.
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Well, I'm going to have three bottles of brown ale, then we're going on the market, shopping.
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She worked as an ale wife, making and selling ale.
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Heading over to Ireland, we have Irish Red Ale, which is sort of a light, refreshing Irish ale.
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Now, an Irish cream ale is a really yummy beer from Ireland.
Synonyms
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1.0
A drink made from grains and hops that contains alcohol
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3.5
A drink like beer made by letting ingredients turn into alcohol
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3.0
A drink that contains alcohol, like beer or wine
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5.0
A very dark, strong beer with a rich taste
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1.4
A drink that contains alcohol, like beer or wine
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2.8
A light amber beer made from pale grains with a hoppy, dry taste
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3.7
A light pale beer made with a lot of wheat, often cloudy and fizzy
Compounds
How Strong
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3.4
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Ale comes from the old English word ealu, which simply meant 'beer' or a strong brewed drink. That's why ale still means a kind of beer today, and you can see the same idea in alehouse ('place to drink').