refreshments
軽食
解説 Definition
refreshments は refreshment（軽食、飲み物）の複数形です。会議やイベントで出される飲み物や簡単な食べ物をまとめて指すことが多い語です。
Light food and drinks provided for people at a meeting, event, journey, or social gathering. The plural form commonly refers collectively to items served during a break or after an activity.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
単数形 refreshment に複数の -s が付いた形ですが、実際には refreshments と複数形で、会議や催しの「飲み物と軽食」をまとめて指すのが典型です。refresh「元気を回復させる」と結び付け、Refreshments will be served. を休憩時間の定番表現として覚えましょう。
Start with refresh, meaning to restore energy or make someone feel less tired. Add -ment to form refreshment, then -s for refreshments. Although the singular can refer to refreshment in a general sense, the plural is the usual event word for drinks and small amounts of food served to guests. Picture a meeting notice saying, “Refreshments will be served afterward.” Unlike a full meal, refreshments normally means coffee, tea, juice, snacks, or other light items.
例文
Refreshments will be served after the meeting.
会議の後に軽食が出されます。
The guests enjoyed refreshments in the lobby.
来客はロビーで軽食を楽しみました。
Please prepare refreshments for twenty people.
20人分の軽食を用意してください。
refreshments の類義語・関連語
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refreshments の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語接頭辞re-（再び）と古仏語frais（新鮮な）由来のrefreshに、名詞化接尾辞-mentと-sが付いた語です。直訳は「再び活力を与えるもの」で、疲れを癒やす飲食物を指すようになり、「軽食」の意味に定着しました。関連語にfreshやrefreshがあります。
Refreshments is the plural of refreshment. Refresh came into English through Old French refreschier, built from re-, expressing renewal, and a Germanic-derived element related to fresh. The suffix -ment forms a noun referring to an action, result, or means. Refreshment first denoted restoration of strength or spirits and later came to name food or drink that provides such restoration. The plural -s developed its familiar collective use for light food and beverages.
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