cider

[ sahy-der ]

/ ˈsaɪ dər /

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.

Nearby words

cicisbeo, ciclopirox olamine, ciclosporin, cid, cid, el, cider, cider press, cider vinegar, cie, cie., cienfuegos

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

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Examples from the Web for 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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There is a great profusion of fruit, the apples yielding a kind of cider which, however, does not keep longer than a month.
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Uncle Daboll talked to the man next him about market prices, and the cider crop, and what a fine fruit year it was.
Our Little French Cousin|Blanche McManus
The pulp was squeezed dry and thrown away, wasn't it, at your cider mill?
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His oscillating perch above the boiler was extraordinarily warm, and he bought a gallon jug of cider from a farmer by the way.
Where the Blue Begins|Christopher Morley
Children were given all the cider they wanted, even very little children drank it.
The Historical Child|Oscar Chrisman

British Dictionary definitions for cider

cider

cyder

/ (ˈsaɪdə) /

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

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Word Origin and History for cider

cider

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.

cider

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cider

cyder

noun

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