malt whiskey

Questions about malt whiskey

What is another word for malt whiskey?

It depends which malt whiskey you mean. In the sense “whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still”, the synonyms are Scotch, Scotch whiskey, Scotch whisky, malt whisky, Scotch malt whiskey, Scotch malt whisky. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of malt whiskey?

WordNet records no antonym for malt whiskey. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for malt whiskey come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of malt whiskey

• Full entry for malt whiskeyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for malt whiskeyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.