/ˈælkəhɒl/
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Translation
Drinks like beer and wine that can make you drunk, or the substance in them.
Word origin
From Arabic al-kuhl, a fine powder used as eye make-up; the word later came to mean any pure spirit.
- Origin
- Arabic
- Root
- al-kuhl
Examples
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"Alcohol" is uncountable, so it takes no a and no plural.
eighteen Britain.
Alcohol here means drinks like beer, wine, and whisky.
less .
Use "less" with alcohol because it is uncountable.
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