pilsner

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/ˈpɪlznə/

noun

A pale, light lager beer.

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

pilsner1

nounpilsner (countable and uncountable, plural pilsners)

plural pilsners · alternative Pilsener · alternative pilsener · alternative Pilsner

  1. countableuncountableA pale, light lager beer.

    Synonyms: pils

Pilsner2

nounPilsner (countable and uncountable, plural Pilsners)

plural Pilsners

  1. 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 182
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    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 206–207

    She 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.

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More synonyms by meaning

nouna pale lager with strong flavor of hops; first brewed in the Bohemian town of Pilsen

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Broader
lagerlager beer

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. GermanPilsner
  2. Englishpilsner

From German Pilsner, from Pilsen, the Bohemian city where the beer was first developed.

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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
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APA

pilsner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pilsner

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“pilsner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pilsner. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pilsner,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pilsner.

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