Cider Definition
sīdər
noun
The juice pressed from apples or, formerly, from other fruits, used as a beverage or for making vinegar: hard cider is fermented and sweet cider is not.
Webster's New World
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice pressed from fruit, especially apples.
American Heritage
(in Japan) A non-alcoholic drink, normally carbonated; equivalent to soft drink.
Wiktionary
Any particular type of one of these beverages.
She liked an aged cider. He liked a harder cider.
Wiktionary
(countable) A cup, glass, or serving of any of these beverages.
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Noun
Singular:
cider
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cidersOrigin of Cider
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From Middle English cidre or sidre, from Old French cisdre or sidre (“beverage made from fermented apples”), from Medieval Latin sīcera, from Ancient Greek σίκερα (sikera, “fermented liquor, strong drink”), of Semitic origin.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English sidre hard cider from Old French sizre, sidre from Late Latin sīcera intoxicating drink from Greek sikera of Semitic origin škr in Semitic roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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