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# ale

«ale» in Mova's school dictionary: **A kind of beer, often darker or stronger, made with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (ale, ales; uncountable for the drink, countable for a glass or kind)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A kind of beer, often darker or stronger, made with malted barley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/#m1)

2) (old-fashioned) Any beer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in stories, especially old tales about inns and taverns, and in history: people in the Middle Ages drank ale because water could be unsafe. Ginger ale is a fizzy soft drink with no alcohol. Phrases: a pint of ale, ginger ale, pale ale.

### examples

- The travellers drank ale at the inn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/#x1)
- Ginger ale is a fizzy drink for children too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/#x2)
- In the Middle Ages, many people drank weak ale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/#x3)
- The pub sells local ales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/#x4)
- The innkeeper poured a mug of ale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/#x5)
- She ordered a ginger ale with ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/#x6)
- Quoth he: "I like a glass of good ale and a well-toasted bannock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/#x7)

### note

Homophone: ail (to be ill). Alcoholic, except ginger ale. Countable for kinds or glasses (two ales), uncountable for the drink.

### In the corpora

- [Medieval people drank weak ale, but they also drank water from wells and springs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/18-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ale» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ale/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.