cher
1 Americanadjective
noun
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a river in central France, flowing NW to the Loire River. 220 miles (355 km) long.
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a department in central France. 2,820 sq. mi. (7,305 sq. km). Bourges.
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a female given name.
noun
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a department of central France, in E Centre region. Capital: Bourges. Pop: 312 277 (2003 est). Area: 7304 sq km (2849 sq miles)
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a river in central France, rising in the Massif Central and flowing northwest to the Loire. Length: 354 km (220 miles)
Example Sentences
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Born Joseph Ellis in Stockwell, London, he developed a distinctive sound that mixed hard-edged beats with emotional hooks; and worked with everyone from Chip and D Double E to Cher Lloyd and Ed Sheeran.
From BBC
After receiving exposure on Rinse FM and SB:TV, he won a recording contract with Mercury Records, and made a number of guest appearances on other artists' records, including Ed Sheeran's Goodbye to You, Mz Bratt's Speeding By and Cher Lloyd's Dub on the Track.
From BBC
After all, this generation of parents are the millennials and Gen X-ers who grew up socializing at the mall a la Cher Horowitz in “Clueless.”
From Los Angeles Times
From flirtation in French, “cher ami,” to passive-aggressiveness, “I am sorry that you did not call again as promised,” to insults, “The fact is you are all a set of cross kings … the only pleasant gentleman I have met is Mr. Grinnell, he was kind, he is a Christian, you are not.”
From Literature
In the more than 10 years since she first shepherded “Chicken Shop Date” from a column in a youth publication to a viral phenomenon fetching millions of views and securing the likes of Cher, Jennifer Lawrence and Billie Eilish as guests, Dimoldenberg has put a lot of work into her artfully inelegant celebrity courtships.
From Los Angeles Times
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