soda
noun/ˈsəʊdə/
/ˈsəʊdə/
- (also soda water)[uncountable, countable] fizzy water (= water with bubbles) used as a drink on its own or to mix with alcoholic drinks or fruit juice (originally made with sodium bicarbonate)
- Add some soda to the whisky, please.
- a Scotch and soda
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- club
- cream
- orange
- …
- bottle
- can
- glass
- …
- drink
- sip
- get
- …
- water
- pop
- bottle
- …
- a Scotch and soda
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- (also soda water)[countable] a glass of soda
- (also old-fashioned soda pop)(both North American English) [uncountable, countable] a sweet fizzy drink (= a drink with bubbles) made with soda water, a fruit taste and sometimes ice cream
- Do you have any diet soda?
- He had an ice cream soda.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- club
- cream
- orange
- …
- bottle
- can
- glass
- …
- drink
- sip
- get
- …
- water
- pop
- bottle
- …
- a Scotch and soda
- [uncountable] a chemical substance in common use that is a compound of sodium see also baking soda, bicarbonate of soda, caustic soda, sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, washing sodaOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- caustic
- baking
- washing
- …
- lime
- lake
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (3)): from medieval Latin, from Arabic suwwad ‘saltwort’ (a plant whose ashes were formerly used in soap making).
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