释义
[ sahy -der ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈsaɪ dər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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.
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
OTHER WORDS FROM cider ci·der·ish, ci·der·like, adjective Words nearby cider ciclosporin, Cid, -cidal, -cide, Cid, El, cider , cider press, cider vinegar, ci-devant, Cie., ciénaga
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Example sentences 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 cider s using indigenous yeasts, and his cider s 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.
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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.
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Children were given all the cider they wanted, even very little children drank it.
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British Dictionary definitions for cider 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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