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Noun alcohol has 2 senses
- alcohol, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant - a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him"
--1 is a kind of beverage, drink, drinkable, potable; drug of abuse, street drug
--1 has particulars: | proof spirit; home brew, homebrew; hooch, hootch; kava, kavakava; aperitif; brew, brewage; sake, saki, rice beer; nipa; wine, vino; liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink; neutral spirits, ethyl alcohol; pulque; liqueur, cordial; mixed drink; hard cider; perry; rotgut; koumiss, kumis |
- alcohol - any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation
--2 is a kind of liquid
--2 has particulars: | methanol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirit; ethyl alcohol, ethanol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol; isopropyl alcohol, isopropanol; allyl alcohol, propenyl alcohol; amyl alcohol; butyl alcohol, butanol; cyclohexanol; diol, glycol, dihydric alcohol; glycerol, glycerin, glycerine; lauryl alcohol, 1-dodecanol; propanol, propyl alcohol; sterol, steroid alcohol |
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