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cider [sahy-der] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider), or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
Also British, cy·der. Origin of cider 1250–1300; Middle English sidre Middle French Old French si(s)dre Late Latin sīcera strong drink Septuagint Greek sī́kera Hebrew shēkhār (Levit. 10:9); replacing Middle English sithere Old French sidre Related formsci·der·ish, ci·der·like, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for cider Contemporary Examples of cider
Despite an impressively long history, cider has maintained a relatively humble identity.
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Cider has a long and storied history that can be tasted in the variety of options found throughout the world.
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He ferments his ciders using indigenous yeasts, and his ciders maintain a purity and freshness unique in the cider category.
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Harvey then put the brain into a cider box and stashed it under a beer cooler.
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This cider is bone dry and has a really great olive & briny quality that makes it a killer food pairing cider.
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Historical Examples of cider
Cool and then add the sirup to the cider and the juice of the lemons.
Woman’s Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4
Woman’s Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
We’ll have a champagne supper, with cider for champagne, eh, dad?
W. A. Fraser
By the time the cider boils, the eggs will be sufficiently light.
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We had a frugal meal of bread, cheese, and cider set before us.
Sarah Bernhardt
Peaches we have in any quantity; and the cider they make is capital stuff.
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British Dictionary definitions for cider cider cyder noun
- Also called (US): hard cider an alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of apples
- Also called: sweet cider US and Canadian an unfermented drink made from apple juice
Word Origin for cider C14: from Old French cisdre, via Medieval Latin, from Late Greek sikera strong drink, from Hebrew shēkhār Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for cider n.
late 13c., from Old French cidre, cire “pear or apple cider” (12c., Modern French cidre), variant of cisdre, from Late Latin sicera, Vulgate rendition of Hebrew shekhar, a word used for any strong drink (translated in Old English as beor, taken untranslated in Septuagint Greek as sikera), related to Arabic sakar “strong drink,” sakira “was drunk.” Meaning gradually narrowed in English to mean exclusively “fermented drink made from apples,” though this sense also was in Old French.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
