Beers

[ beerz ]

/ bɪərz /

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[hwit-ing-uh m, wit-] /ˈʰwɪt ɪŋ əm, ˈwɪt-/, 1876–1943, U.S. pioneer in mental hygiene.

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beer

[ beer ]

/ bɪər /

noun

an alcoholic beverage made by brewing and fermentation from cereals, usually malted barley, and flavored with hops and the like for a slightly bitter taste.

any of various beverages, whether alcoholic or not, made from roots, molasses or sugar, yeast, etc.: root beer; ginger beer.

an individual serving of beer; a glass, can, or bottle of beer: We'll have three beers.

Origin of beer

before 1000; Middle English bere, Old English bēor; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German bior, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch bēr, Dutch, German Bier (Old Norse bjōrr, probably < OE); of disputed and ambiguous orig.

Can be confusedbeer bier

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Examples from the Web for beers

So, feeling “a little loopy” from beers, he sat down and wrote a letter to Santa Claus.
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I paid a visit Istmo Brew Pub and found their beers undrinkable.
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A car pulled up and three men with beers climbed out, Abarca among them.
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The two were seen at a nearby bar, where he purchased two beers.
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There was no way I was going to compete with that, because I knew he could consume 100 beers in one sitting.
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The beers of England and France, as well as most of those of Germany, become gradually sour by contact with the air.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley
The chemical composition of beers of different types will be gathered from the following tables.
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More quarrels for the same cause eventuated here, and then Beers left her for a while.
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The per-centage in English beers of malt extract (dextrin and sugar glucose) is least in bitter, and highest in the sweet ales.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley
In response to Mrs. Mooney's vigorous order, "Six beers with the trimmin's!"
The Long Day|Dorothy Richardson

British Dictionary definitions for beers

beer

/ (bɪə) /

noun

an alcoholic drink brewed from malt, sugar, hops, and water and fermented with yeastCompare ale

a slightly fermented drink made from the roots or leaves of certain plantsginger beer; nettle beer

(modifier) relating to or used in the drinking of beerbeer glass; beer mat

(modifier) in which beer is drunk, esp (of licensed premises) having a licence to sell beerbeer house; beer cellar; beer garden

Word Origin for beer

Old English beor; related to Old Norse bjōrr, Old Frisian biār, Old High German bior

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Word Origin and History for beers

beer

Old English beor "strong drink, beer, mead," a word of much-disputed and ambiguous origin, cognate with Old Frisian biar, Middle Dutch and Dutch bier, Old High German bior, German Bier.

Probably a 6c. West Germanic monastic borrowing of Vulgar Latin biber "a drink, beverage" (from Latin infinitive bibere "to drink;" see imbibe). Another suggestion is that it comes from Proto-Germanic *beuwoz-, from *beuwo- "barley." The native Germanic word for the beverage was the one that yielded ale (q.v.).

Beer was a common drink among most of the European peoples, as well as in Egypt and Mesopotamia, but was known to the Greeks and Romans only as an exotic product. [Buck]

They did have words for it, however. Greek brytos, used in reference to Thracian or Phrygian brews, was related to Old English breowan "brew;" Latin zythum is from Greek zythos, first used of Egyptian beer and treated as an Egyptian word but perhaps truly Greek and related to zyme "leaven." French bière is from Germanic. Spanish cerveza is from Latin cervesia "beer," perhaps related to Latin cremor "thick broth."

Old Church Slavonic pivo, source of the general Slavic word for "beer," is originally "a drink" (cf. Old Church Slavonic piti "drink"). French bière is a 16c. borrowing from German. U.S. slang beer goggles, through which every potential romantic partner looks desirable, is from 1986.

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