noun
- any potable liquid, especially one other than water, as tea, coffee, beer, or milk: The price of the meal includes a beverage.
noun
- any drink, usually other than water
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.