aqua vitae

1. 1.

   strong distilled liquor or brandy

   Synonymsardent spirits

   Broaderliquor

Questions about aqua vitae

What does aqua vitae mean?

aqua vitae means "strong distilled liquor or brandy".

What is another word for aqua vitae?

Close synonyms include ardent spirits. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aqua vitae a common word?

aqua vitae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.