1
: a carbonated, fermented alcoholic beverage that is usually made from malted cereal grain (especially barley), is flavored with hops, and typically contains less than a 5% alcohol content compare ale, craft beer, lager entry 1, malt liquor sense 2
2
: a carbonated nonalcoholic or a fermented slightly alcoholic beverage with flavoring from roots or other plant parts
birch beer
3
: fermented mash
4
: a drink of beer
Examples of beer in a Sentence
Would you like beer with dinner?
The pub brews its own beer.
I'll have a beer, please.
a couple of cold beers
a glass of birch beer
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The assailant hopped a fence at the governor's mansion, broke windows, entered the residence and deployed Molotov cocktails made from beer bottles and gasoline, police said.
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Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
The unusual-looking freshwater fish, which has pointy teeth and a long snout, measured 7 feet and 3 inches and weighed 153 pounds, according to Weston’s post—about the same heft as a keg of beer.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
While staples like Rudy’s, Welcome to the Johnsons and Sophie’s offer the purest form of dive bar — cash-only and grungy with cheap beer and shot deals — Romeo’s gives you the best of both worlds.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
So, Bacardi will bypass the AI barkeeps with a new free program called Shake Your Future to keep bartenders manning the shakers and beer taps, aiming to train 10,000 new bartenders by 2030.
—Mary Meehan, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
The unusual-looking freshwater fish, which has pointy teeth and a long snout, measured 7 feet and 3 inches and weighed 153 pounds, according to Weston’s post—about the same heft as a keg of beer.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
While staples like Rudy’s, Welcome to the Johnsons and Sophie’s offer the purest form of dive bar — cash-only and grungy with cheap beer and shot deals — Romeo’s gives you the best of both worlds.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
So, Bacardi will bypass the AI barkeeps with a new free program called Shake Your Future to keep bartenders manning the shakers and beer taps, aiming to train 10,000 new bartenders by 2030.
—Mary Meehan, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Beer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beer. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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beer
noun1
: an alcoholic drink made from malt and flavored with hops
2
: a nonalcoholic drink made from roots or other parts of plants
birch beer
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