margarita1
/ˌmɑːɡəˈriːtə
/noun
A cocktail made with tequila and citrus fruit juice: I wish their food was as good as their margaritas...
- Drinks include a variety of margaritas, sangria, tequila, rum and, if you don't drink alcohol, strawberry and mango smoothies.
- In real life do you prefer margaritas or beer or whisky?
- That night, the three of us drank mint juleps and margaritas and watched ‘Blacula.’
Origin
From the Spanish given name equivalent to Margaret.
Rhymes
margarita2
/ˌmɑːɡəˈriːtə/adjective & noun chiefly US
Variant spelling of margherita. we split a Caesar salad and a margarita pizza...
- The margarita pizza reminded me of the pizza in Florence.
- We ordered the antipasto and a margarita pizza.
- The pizza Margarita was tasty enough.
Origin
By analogy with margarita1.
Margarita3
/ˌmɑːɡəˈriːtə/An island in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Venezuela. Visited by Columbus in 1498, it was used as a base by Simón Bolívar in 1816 in the struggle for independence from Spanish rule.