Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A beverage of orange juice, sugar, and water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A drink made of orange-juice and water sweetened.
Wiktionary
- n. A soft drink or a soda with an orange flavour.
- n. A mixture of soda water and orange juice.
- n. Orange juice, see also orange.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to
lemonade ; orange sherbet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. sweetened beverage of diluted orange juice
Etymologies
- orange + -ade. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“• A top secret copy of the Cabinet Office's War Book, dating back to 1962, has been released to the National Archives, revealing that one of the secret codewords authorising government evacuation from London before a nuclear attack was "orangeade".”
The Guardian: Gems from National Archives unearthed after the 30-year rule
“Security at the Burlington site required the codeword "orangeade".”
The Guardian: Gems from National Archives unearthed after the 30-year rule
“The staff ejected the kids as discreetly as possible and took a quick inventory of stolen items, petty stuff not worth reporting to the police, including sliced bread, strawberry jam, orangeade, energy bars, baby formula, nappies and a bottle.”
“Then they all settled down to a first-rate supper of ham, tomatoes, cheese, ripe plums and orangeade.”
“The little shop sold lemonade, orangeade, lime juice, grape-fruit juice and ginger-beer.”
“Great roast beef sandwiches, corn nuggets, orangeade.”
“They eat hot dogs with sauerkraut and wash them down with fresh-squeezed orangeade.”
“A glass of orangeade was brought to thesuppliant Empress; she looked at the glass queerly.”
“Soon, I took delivery of an beautiful orangeade, made with fresh juice and some sort of fizzy mineral water or refresco.”
“On reckoning up, it appeared that he had charged too little for the orangeade, and taken two kreutzers too much for the sweets.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘orangeade’.
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-ade
the act of; product of; participant; drink made from
blockade, pomade, brigade, lemonade, limeade, orangeade, gasconade
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Proustian
vetiver, cheval-glass, ossature, transvertebration, orris-root, ferruginous, viaticum, rep, senescence, bengal light, madeleine, lime-blossom and 109 more...
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knitandpurl "The electric lights would have fused, the pastries would not have arrived in time, the orangeade would have given everybody a stomach-ache. She was the one person not to have here. At the mere sound of her name, as in a fairy-tale, not a note would have issued from the brass; the flute and the oboe would have suddenly lost their voices."
--The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 367 of the Modern Library paperback edition Jan 20, 2010
sionnach We got your orangeade right here, Markie-Mark! Feb 3, 2009
knitandpurl "I was yielding to a purely sensual desire, although we were at that torrid period of the year when sensuality, released, is more readily inclined to visit the organs of taste, and seeks coolness above all. More than for the kiss of a girl, it thirsts for orangeade, for a bath, or even to gaze at that peeled and juicy moon that was quenching the thirst of heaven."
--Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 61 of the Modern Library paperback edition Feb 2, 2009