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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol ; an alcoholic .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1909 | author=w:G. K. Chesterton | title=w:George Bernard Shaw | location=New York | publisher=John Lane | chapter=The Progressive | page=54 | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19535/19535-h/19535-h.htm
|passage=The DIPSOMANIAC and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but
they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a
drink.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1956 | author=w:James Baldwin | title=w:Giovanni’s Room | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2001 | section=Part Two, Chapter 2
|passage=The Spaniards are nice, but, of course, most of them are terribly
poor, the ones who aren’t are impossible, I don’t like the tourists, mainly
English and American DIPSOMANIACS, paid, my dear, by their families to stay
away.}}
1. A persistently drunken person; a drunkard .
**** Synonyms
- [drunkard] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] ; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
**** Antonyms
- [drunkard] [en] , [en] ; See also Thesaurus:teetotaler
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[An alcoholic]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
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