Meanings
pilsner1
plural pilsners · alternative Pilsener · alternative pilsener · alternative Pilsner
Pilsner2
plural Pilsners
- countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of pilsner.
We drink Pilsners as we walk, and Denton doesn’t try to hide his when Chicken George drives by.
2000, Todd Babiak, chapter 6, in Choke Hold, Winnipeg, Man.: Turnstone Press, →ISBN, page 1822 more examples
I am an optimist at bottom, with a superficial coating of pessimism, which thaws near a piano, a pretty girl, or a glass of Pilsner.
1918, James Gibbons Huneker, “Jim the Penman”, in Steeplejack, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part I (In Old Philadelphia), pages 206–207She would have liked to eat Mary’s Friday meatballs and maybe even drink a Pilsner or three with Silje.
2016, Anne Holt, translated by Anne Bruce, “Friday December 20”, in Beyond the Truth (Hanne Wilhelmsen; 7), London: Corvus, →ISBN, page 54
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA pale, light lager beer.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna pale lager with strong flavor of hops; first brewed in the Bohemian town of Pilsen
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- GermanPilsner
- Englishpilsner
From German Pilsner, from Pilsen, the Bohemian city where the beer was first developed.
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish pilsner
- pilsnerpale, light beer
Dutch pils, pilsener
- pilspale, light beer
- pilsenerpale, light beer
Estonian pilsner
- pilsnerpale, light beer
Finnish pilsner, pilsner-olut
- pilsnerpale, light beer
- pilsner-olutpale, light beer
German Pils
- Pilspale, light beer
Polish pilzner
- pilznerpale, light beer
Portuguese pilsen
- pilsenpale, light beer
Swedish pilsner
- pilsnerpale, light beer
Ukrainian пі́льзнер
- пі́льзнер (pílʹzner)pale, light beer
Cite this entry
pilsner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pilsner
“pilsner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pilsner. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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