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Webster 1913 Edition

Sake

Sake

(sāk)
,
Noun.
[OE.
sake
cause, also, lawsuit, fault, AS.
sacu
strife, a cause or suit at law; akin to D.
zaak
cause, thing, affair, G.
sache
thing, cause in law, OHG.
sahha
, Icel.
sök
, Sw.
sak
, Dan.
sag
, Goth.
sakjō
strife, AS.
sacan
to contend, strive, Goth.
sakam
, Icel.
saka
to contend, strive, blame, OHG.
sahhan
, MHG.
sachen
, to contend, strive, defend one’s right, accuse, charge in a lawsuit, and also to E.
seek
. Cf.
Seek
.]
Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; – used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like;
as, to commit crime for the
sake
of gain; to go abroad for the
sake
of one's health
.
Moved with wrath and shame and ladies'
sake
.
Spenser.
I will not again curse the ground any more for man's
sake
.
Gen. viii. 21.
Will he draw out,
For anger's
sake
, finite to infinite?
Milton.
Knowledge is for the
sake
of man, and not man for the
sake
of knowledge.
Sir W. Hamilton.
☞ The -s of the possessive case preceding sake is sometimes omitted for euphony; as, for goodness sake. “For conscience sake.”
1 Cor. x. 28.
The plural sakes is often used with a possessive plural. “For both our sakes.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sake

SAKE

,
Noun.
[Heb. to press or oppress. The primary sense is to strain, urge, press or drive forward, and this is from the same root as seek, essay and L. sequor, whence we have pursue and prosecute. We have analogous words in cause, thing, and the L. res.]
1.
Final cause; end; purpose; or rather the purpose of obtaining. I open a window for the sake of air, that is, to obtain it, for the purpose of obtaining air. I read for the sake of instruction, that is, to obtain it. Sake then signifies primarily effort to obtain, and secondarily purpose of obtaining. The hero fights for the sake of glory; men labor for the sake of subsistence or wealth.
2.
Account; regard to any person or thing.
I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake. Gen. 8.
Save me for thy mercies' sake. Ps. 6.

Definition 2024

Sake

Sake

See also: sake, saké, sakė, and sa kê

German

Noun

Sake m

  1. sake, saké (Japanese rice wine)

sake

sake

See also: Sake, saké, sakė, and sa kê

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sāk, IPA(key): /seɪk/
  • Rhymes: -eɪk

Noun

sake ‎(plural sakes)

  1. Cause, interest or account.
    • For the sake of argument
  2. Purpose or end; reason.
    • For old times' sake
  3. The benefit or regard of someone or something.
    • 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
      When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b.
      But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]
  4. (obsolete except in phrases) Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.
    • And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. — Genesis 3:17
Usage notes
  • The word sake is generally used in constructions of the form "for X's sake" or "for the sake of X", where X is a noun (see the quotations above, for sake of, and for the sake of).
  • Garner's Modern American Usage notes it is common to write an apostrophe rather than apostrophe–ess in this construction when the noun ends in an /s/ or /z/ sound: for appearance' sake, for goodness' sake.
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Translations

Etymology 2

From Japanese 酒 ‎(さけ, sake), any alcoholic drink.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • enPR: säkā, IPA(key): /sɑːkeɪ/
    • Rhymes: -ɑːkeɪ
  • enPR: säkē, IPA(key): /sɑːki/
    • Rhymes: -ɑːki

Noun

sake ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sakes)

  1. (countable and uncountable) Rice wine, a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.
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Most common English words before 1923: wouldn't · success · instance · #906: sake · justice · offer · promise

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Finnish

Noun

sake

  1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Declension

Inflection of sake (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative sake saket
genitive saken sakejen
partitive sakea sakeja
illative sakeen sakeihin
singular plural
nominative sake saket
accusative nom. sake saket
gen. saken
genitive saken sakejen
sakeinrare
partitive sakea sakeja
inessive sakessa sakeissa
elative sakesta sakeista
illative sakeen sakeihin
adessive sakella sakeilla
ablative sakelta sakeilta
allative sakelle sakeille
essive sakena sakeina
translative sakeksi sakeiksi
instructive — sakein
abessive saketta sakeitta
comitative — sakeineen

Hausa

Noun

sàkē m

  1. slackness

Japanese

Romanization

sake

  1. rōmaji reading of さけ
  2. rōmaji reading of サケ

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈs̪akɛ]

Noun

sake n ‎(indeclinable)

  1. sake

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Japanese 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

Noun

sake m (plural sakes)

  1. sake, Japanese rice wine

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:saquê.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsa̠.ke̞]
  • Homophone: saque

Etymology

From Japanese 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

Noun

sake m ‎(plural sakes)

  1. sake, Japanese rice wine

Etymology

From Middle English sake ‎(“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu ‎(“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-Germanic *sakō ‎(“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- ‎(“to investigate”). Akin to West Frisian saak, Low German Saak, Dutch zaak ‎(“matter; cause; business”), German Sache ‎(“thing; matter; cause; legal cause”), Danish sag, Swedish sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 ‎(sakjo, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn ‎(“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan ‎(“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.

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