club soda

English

Noun

club soda (countable and uncountable, plural club sodas)

1. (Canada, US) A carbonated beverage consisting mainly of carbonated water, with or without a few other minor ingredients such as potassium citrate.

Usage notes

In American English (and possibly other varieties), a distinction is sometimes drawn between club soda and seltzer: a given brand will call a product seltzer when it contains nothing but carbonated water, but the product called club soda also contains a few other ingredients, although the products may be indistinguishable by taste and appearance.

Synonyms

(broadly synonymous; see usage note):

• carbonated water
• seltzer
• seltzer water
• soda water

Hypernyms

• beverage
  • soft drink
    • fizzy drink

Related terms

• club fender
• club sandwich

Translations

carbonated water — see also soda

• French: soda club m
• Hindi: सोडा (hi) m (soḍā), सोडावाटर (hi) m (soḍāvāṭar)
• Polish: sodówka (pl) f, woda gazowana (pl) f, woda sodowa (pl) f

See also

• cream soda
• tonic water