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say it: ruh-FRESH-muhnt
refreshment is a noun meaning "snacks and drinks served as a light meal". It carries 2 recorded senses.
snacks and drinks served as a light meal
activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation
“time for rest and refreshment by the pool”
“days of joyous recreation with his friends”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for refreshment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.