any potable liquid, especially one other than water, as tea, coffee, beer, or milk:
The price of the meal includes a beverage.
Origin
1250-1300;Middle English < Anglo-Frenchbeverage, bevarage, equivalent to be(i)vre to drink + -age-age
Examples from the web for beverage
It is illegal for facilities to process out-of-state containers, since a state's beverage industry is paying back those deposits.
Usually, hot barley tea was the accompanying beverage.
No longer a luxury item, the beverage has become a common sight worldwide.
Eating of sugar was driven by drinking of tea, and sweetened tea had become the beverage of choice.
beverage companies, for example, may sell it by the pound.
Labeled buttons tell you which temperature suits which beverage.
Some trials involved rating beverage preference by taste alone.
The compound is also used to make epoxy resins that coat the insides of food and beverage cans.
They rattle the ice in the clear plastic beverage cups from mobile vendors on summer days.
We honestly thought it was a tie-in commercial for some electrolyte-rich energy beverage.
British Dictionary definitions for beverage
beverage
/ˈbɛvərɪdʒ; ˈbɛvrɪdʒ/
noun
1.
any drink, usually other than water
Word Origin
C13: from Old French bevrage, from beivre to drink, from Latin bibere
Word Origin and History for beverage
n.
mid-13c., from Anglo-French beverage, Old French bevrage, from Old French boivre "to drink" (Modern French boire; from Latin bibere "to imbibe;" see imbibe) + -age, suffix forming mass or abstract nouns.