Dictionary Definition
refreshment
Noun
1 snacks and drinks served as a light meal
2 activity that refreshes and recreates; activity
that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation;
"time for rest and refreshment by the pool"; "days of joyous
recreation with his friends" [syn: recreation]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From refreschement.Noun
- The action of refreshing; a means of restoring strength, energy or vigour.
- A light snack or fresh drink without alcohol.
Translations
The action of refreshing; a means of restoring
strength, energy or vigour
- French: rafraîchissement
A light snack or drink
- Finnish: virvoke, virvotusjuoma
- French: rafraîchissement
- German: Erfrischung
- Kurdish:
- ttbc Dutch: verfrissing
- ttbc Thai: เครื่องดื่ม (krueng-duem)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aerage,
aeration, air
conditioning, air cooling, airing, aliment, alimentation, bite, board, case hardening, chow, collation, cross-ventilation,
eatables, eats, edibles, enlivenment, entertainment, exhilaration, face-lift,
feed, food, fortification, furbishment, grub, hardening, invigoration, keep, light lunch, light meal,
light repast, meal,
meat, mess, new birth, nosh, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, oxygenation, oxygenization, pabulum, palingenesis, palingenesy, pap, perflation, reanimation, rebirth, reconditioning, recrudescence, refection, refreshments, refurbishment, regalement, regeneracy, regenerateness, regeneration, regenesis, reinforcement, reinvigoration, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, renaissance, renascence, renewal, renovation, repas, repast, restoration, restorative, restrengthening,
resurgence, resurrection, resuscitation, retread, retreading, revival, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, second
wind, second youth, slum clearance, snack, snacks, spot of lunch, spread, stimulation, strengthening, support, sustenance, table, tempering, tonic, treat, urban renewal, ventilation