ardent spirits

1. 1.

   strong distilled liquor or brandy

   Synonymsaqua vitae

   Broaderliquor

Questions about ardent spirits

What does ardent spirits mean?

ardent spirits means "strong distilled liquor or brandy".

What is another word for ardent spirits?

Close synonyms include aqua vitae. 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 ardent spirits a common word?

ardent spirits 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.