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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seltzer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ With my ham and cheese, which were not of my making, they brought me iced seltzer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seltzer

1741, from German Selterser (Wasser), a kind of mineral water, literally "of Selters," village near Weisbaden in Hesse-Nassau, where the mineral water is found.

Wiktionary
seltzer

n. carbonated water.

WordNet
seltzer
  1. n. naturally effervescent mineral water

  2. effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide [syn: soda water, carbonated water, club soda, sparkling water]

Gazetteer
Seltzer, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 307
Housing Units (2000): 137
Land area (2000): 0.069226 sq. miles (0.179294 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.069226 sq. miles (0.179294 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69256
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.696252 N, 76.235543 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Seltzer, PA
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Wikipedia
Seltzer

Seltzer may refer to:

  • Seltzer water (also Soda water), carbonated water
    • Seltzer bottle
  • Seltzer (surname)
  • Seltzer, Pennsylvania, census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
Seltzer (surname)

Seltzer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aaron Seltzer (born 1974), with Jason Friedberg, screenwriter and director of parody films
  • David Seltzer (born 1940), American screenwriter, producer, and director
  • Jerry Seltzer (born 1932), second and final owner of the original Roller Derby league
  • Leo Seltzer (1903–1978), who co-created the sport of roller derby
  • Margaret Seltzer (born 1975), American writer
  • Stan Seltzer, piano player in the Stan Seltzer Trio
  • Thomas Seltzer (translator), translator and editor of Russian stories
  • Happy-Tom, born Thomas Seltzer, bassist and main songwriter in the band Turbonegro
  • Walter Seltzer (born 1914), film producer
  • Wendy Seltzer, American lawyer

Category:Germanic-language surnames

Usage examples of "seltzer".

The volunteer nurse kicked open the door into the little room and went in, hastily pouring the bromo seltzer from one glass to the other to keep it from foaming out of all bounds.

Each of them allowed himself daily exactly twenty-seven cigarettes-- carried in a quiet silver case--with two highballs, two cocktails, three cups of coffee, one Bromo Seltzer, and fifteen minutes of sharp and detestable exercise.

Rock said he had been outside by 10:10, according to the Bromo Seltzer tower.

After a long dusty day of detasseling corn he would return to its paradoxes and mental loop-the-loops with a feeling of immersing himself in seltzer water.

They tried cajoling, they tried threatening, they tried rational argument, they tried inductive logic, they tried deductive logic, they tried salary incentives, they tried profit sharing, they tried tickling his risibilities, they tried tickling his feet, they tried punching him, they tried shocking him, they tried arresting him, they tried crowbars, they tried hosing him down with cold water, then hot water, then seltzer water, they tried suction devices, they tried sensory deprivation, they tried doping him into unconsciousness.

He quaffed a long gulp of Alka Seltzer and swallowed a Maalox bar whole.

Fresh rolls, big slab of cream cheese, two six-packs of beer, pineapple juice, seltzer.

Beauvoir took a silver pressure bottle from the bar counter and hosed the smoldering curtain with seltzer, until the CO2 cartridge was exhausted and the stream faltered.

So he put it on and they sat sipping rhine wine and seltzer and he turned it over and they sat sipping rhine wine and seltzer until both sides were played.

Kaden put down the seltzer bottle, pulled off his torn, stained, litter-bedecked jacket, and put Kirk's on.

He dropped to the floor, putting the seltzer bottle aside, drew up the sawblade and pitched it—.

He dropped to the floor, putting the seltzer bottle aside, drew up the sawblade and pitched itthen dodged aside without waiting to see if it hit.

He dropped to the floor, putting the seltzer bottle aside, drew up the sawblade and pitched it-then dodged aside without waiting to see if it hit.

He dropped to the floor, putting the seltzer bottle aside, drew up the sawblade and pitched it—.

Damon, rushing along as fast as he could, a seltzer bottle in either hand.