English

Soft drinks in a Virginia supermarket

Noun

soft drink ‎(plural soft drinks)

1. Any carbonated, usually sweet, non-alcoholic drink. (In this sense, juice, milk, tea and coffee are not soft drinks.)
2. (broadly speaking) Any non-alcoholic drink.

Hyponyms

• coke (most common term in the Southeastern US)^[1][2]
• fizzy drink
• lemonade
• pop (most common term in Canada and the upper West and upper Midwest of the US, including western WI, most of IL including Chicago, MI, IN, OH, WV and western PA)^[1][2]
• soda (most common term in HI, CA, eastern MO, southwestern IL, eastern WI and New England)^[1][2]
• soda pop
• See also Wikisaurus:soft drink

Antonyms

• hard liquor

Translations

See also

• cola

References

1. 1 2 3 Matthew T. Campbell, Spatial Graphics and Analysis Lab, East Central University of Oklahoma:
2. 1 2 3 dialect survey