grain alcohol

1. 1.

   the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline

   Synonymsethyl alcoholethanolfermentation alcohol

   Broaderalcoholplant product

   Narrowerspirits of wineabsolute alcoholdenatured alcohol

Questions about grain alcohol

What does grain alcohol mean?

grain alcohol means "the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline".

What is another word for grain alcohol?

Close synonyms include ethyl alcohol, ethanol, fermentation alcohol. 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 grain alcohol a common word?

grain alcohol 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.