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Meaning of "social drinking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOCIAL DRINKING

social drinking  [ˈsəʊʃəl ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOCIAL DRINKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Social drinking is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SOCIAL DRINKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drinking culture

Drinking culture refers to the customs and practices associated with the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Although alcoholic beverages and social attitudes toward drinking vary around the world, nearly every civilization has independently discovered the processes of brewing beer, fermenting wine, and distilling spirits. Alcohol and its effects have been present in societies throughout history. Drinking is documented in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, in the Qur'an, in art history, in Greek and Roman literature as old as Homer, and in Confucius’s Analects.

Definition of social drinking in the English dictionary

The definition of social drinking in the dictionary is the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SOCIAL DRINKING


blinking
ˈblɪŋkɪŋ
drinking
ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ
freethinking
ˌfriːˈθɪŋkɪŋ
hard-drinking
ˌhɑːdˈdrɪŋkɪŋ
index-linking
ˌɪndeksˈlɪŋkɪŋ
nondrinking
ˌnɒnˈdrɪŋkɪŋ
pinking
ˈpɪŋkɪŋ
plinking
ˈplɪŋkɪŋ
quick-thinking
ˌkwɪkˈθɪŋkɪŋ
right-thinking
ˈraɪtˌθɪŋkɪŋ
shrinking
ˈʃrɪŋkɪŋ
sinking
ˈsɪŋkɪŋ
slinking
ˈslɪŋkɪŋ
stinking
ˈstɪŋkɪŋ
thinking
ˈθɪŋkɪŋ
unblinking
ʌnˈblɪŋkɪŋ
unshrinking
ʌnˈʃrɪŋkɪŋ
unthinking
ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋ
unwinking
ʌnˈwɪŋkɪŋ
winking
ˈwɪŋkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOCIAL DRINKING

social contract
Social Credit
Social Crediter
social democracy
social democrat
social democratic
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Social Democratic Party
social disease
social drinker
social dumping
Social Education Centre
social engineering
social evening
social evolution
social exclusion
social fund
social gaming
social gathering
social history

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOCIAL DRINKING

banking
binge drinking
bonking
booking
e-banking
high-ranking
home banking
lateral thinking
m-banking
Nanking
planking
positive thinking
quick thinking
ranking
retail banking
spanking
tanking
telephone banking
top-ranking
trunking
wishful thinking

Synonyms and antonyms of social drinking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «social drinking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOCIAL DRINKING

Find out the translation of social drinking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of social drinking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «social drinking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

社交饮酒
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bebida social
570 millions of speakers

English

social drinking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सामाजिक पीने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شرب الاجتماعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

социальная питьевой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

beber socialmente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সামাজিক মদ্যপান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

boire social
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Minum sosial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sozial trinken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

社交上の飲酒
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사회적 음주
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngombé sosial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

uống xã hội
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சமூக குடி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सामाजिक मद्यपान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sosyal içki
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bere sociale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

picie socjalne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

соціальна питної
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

băut sociale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοινωνική πόσιμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sosiale drink
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

socialt drickande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sosial drikking
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of social drinking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOCIAL DRINKING»

The term «social drinking» is regularly used and occupies the 96.777 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOCIAL DRINKING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about social drinking

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOCIAL DRINKING»

Discover the use of social drinking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to social drinking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking: How to Effectively Moderate ...
Based on the revolutionary Drink/Link Moderate Drinking Program, this book teaches drinkers to modify their drinking habits, reduce alcohol consumption and prevent alcoholism on their own at home - no meetings, belief in a higher power or ...
Donna J. Cornett, 2005
2
Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context
This short text is a framework for students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol, and a companion text for teaching the primary concepts of anthropology to first-or second year college students.
Janet Chrzan, 2013
3
Nicotine, Caffeine and Social Drinking: Behaviour and Brain ...
ERP deviations reported in our investigations due to heavy social drinking suggests that ERP technology can be employed as a sensitive index of cognitive functioning. Even though the exact nature of the cognitive functions underlying the ...
Monicque Lorist, Jan Snel, 2013
4
Alcohol Tolerance and Social Drinking: Learning the Consequences
In an illuminating departure from this line of thinking, this volume systematically investigates why most drinkers can use alcohol without making the transition from social to abusive drinking.
Muriel Vogel-Sprott, 1992
5
How to Cut Down Your Social Drinking
Offers specific tips on how to control social drinking by planning drinking in advance, and by regulating intake on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
Richard A. Basini, 1987
6
Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History
The consumption of alcohol, particularly social drinking in taverns, provided the structure of popular sociability and gave a ritual form to public and communal comportment. If we are accurately to assess the health of Old Regime society, we  ...
Susanna Barrows, Robin Room, 1991
7
How much is too much?: the effects of social drinking
An investigative report on the effects of social drinking sorts out all the available information pertaining to the amount of alcoholic beverages drank by Americans in social settings
Leonard Gross, 1985
8
Temperance and Education; Or, the Relation of the Social ...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
Mark Hopkins, 2010
9
Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering ...
... to social drinking.25 However, this finding has been highly criticized by a number of treatment organizations because it has led some alcoholics who had quit drinking to try to drink lightly, with the result that they immediately returned to  ...
Charles Zastrow, 2009
10
Youth Drinking Cultures: European Experiences
The Centrality of Heavy Social Drinking in the Lifestyles of English Youth Howard Parker Introduction There is no dispute that young people in many European countries are drinking more than their predecessors and that drinking for ...
Margaretha Järvinen, Robin Room, 2007

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOCIAL DRINKING»

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Tell Me About It: Couple's push-pull over social drinking
Question: My girlfriend and I recently got into an argument about how much is appropriate to drink at a social occasion (I'm OK with drinking more, though she's ... «Philly.com, May 15»
2
When men drink, their smiles get more 'contagious'
The danger here is that most people think of "social drinking" as fairly harmless, lead author and University of Pittsburgh PhD candidate Catharine Fairbairn said ... «Washington Post, Sep 14»

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