Noun: martini
| Singular | martini |
| Plural | martinis |
Sample Sentences
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Will you join us at six o’clock for martinis?
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My boss is out on another of his three-martini lunches.
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Even at Juneau's prices, ten dollars worth of martinis is a lot of liquor to drink in an hour. [1961 Jan, Robert Silverberg, Amazing Stories, page 26, column 2:]
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Could any tiger
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Drink martinis, smoke cigars,
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And last as we do? [c. 1963, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “Symmetries & Asymmetries”, in Edward Mendelson, editor, Collected Poems, New York: Random House, published 1976, →ISBN, page 551:]
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He drank martini, played bridge in the club, and captured treaty-port life wickedly. [1997, Caroline Courtauld, May Holdsworth, The Hong Kong Story, Oxford, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 21:]
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I had the feeling that had he been a smoker he would have lit a cigarette at this moment. I suspected that once he had been a smoker, for he seemed as if he wished someone would offer him one. He drank martini instead. [2006, Joan [Elizabeth] Taylor, Conversations with Mr. Prain, Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, page 172:]
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After the meal, they drank martini on the rocks in the lounge. [2007, Margaret S. Ngwa, Divine Love for Cleansing, Patron Publishing House, →ISBN, page 63:]
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I love the chocolate martinis at Trendy Bar!
Nouns inflected like martini
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
See Martini.
Verbs referencing "martini"
Finnish Nouns
martini.