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REFRESHMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation
Example:
days of joyous recreation with his friends
Synonyms:
recreation; refreshment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("refreshment" is a kind of...):
rejuvenation (the act of restoring to a more youthful condition)
Derivation:
refresh (become or make oneself fresh again)
refresh (make (to feel) fresh)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Snacks and drinks served as a light meal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("refreshment" is a kind of...):
bite; collation; snack (a light informal meal)
Context examples:
Having indicated an arm-chair to me and placed my refreshment near it, he handed me a long, smooth Havana.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of breakfast she had been kept by her fears, and of dinner by their sudden reverse, from eating much;—and the present refreshment, therefore, with such feelings of content as she brought to it, was particularly welcome.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Once, on the dancing-floor, he saw Lizzie Connolly go by in the arms of a young workingman; and, later, when he made the round of the pavilion, he came upon her sitting by a refreshment table.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
With a mocking smile, he placed one hand upon my shoulder and, holding me tight, bared my throat with the other, saying as he did so, 'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet; it is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
With that refreshment I could perhaps regain a degree of energy: without it, it would be difficult to proceed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
On Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner's coming up they were all pressed to go into the house and take some refreshment; but this was declined, and they parted on each side with utmost politeness.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“I shall soon be rested,” said Fanny; “to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Peggotty had a basket of refreshments on her knee, which would have lasted us out handsomely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment—for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
