cider
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- noun
- /ˈsaɪdər/
:
sidra
- I trotted down the stairs and found my reluctant guest drinking hot cider at the kitchen table.
- apple cider
- wine and cider
We drank some Shark Martinelli's, sparkling cider, apple cider stuff.
- We drank some Shark Martinelli's, sparkling cider, apple cider stuff.
- This, my friends, is my apple cider sangria.
- Sparkling cider is what you would think it is, but it's water.
- But I ended up getting warm caramel cider and this one is my current favorite.
- Let me, you know, let me send you a thing of apple cider.
- I'm normally like, I'm a wine girl, I'm a cocktail girl, then like a cider girl, then maybe spirits.
- Can you guys even see that be drinking apple cider?
- I've never never tried G I've never tried Bulmer's per cider.
Examples
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At the fall festival, we sampled several types of cider made from local apples.
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I had been warned that Somerset cider could prove to be dangerous due to its alcoholic content.
Academic text (1994) -
"You guys remember when we used to get apple cider at Park Lane?
Fiction book (1996) -
I'll have a cider with the man that wrote "Yesterday."
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I just got the cider.
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We got beer, ale and cider.
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I fixed myself a cider and brandy and sat back down in front of the fire.
Fiction book (1997) -
As I was saying... remember tonight at the hoedown, it's free cider night.
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We got fresh apple cider and some homemade fudge.
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Barlow blew on his cup of hot cider but burned his tongue anyway.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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A drink made from apples that has alcohol
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A hot drink made by warming sweet apple juice with spices and orange slices
An alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice
A strong, rough-tasting cider made from apples
Apple juice made from pressed apples that has no alcohol
Idioms
Compounds
- Australian
A small to medium tree from Tasmania grown for its sweet sap and as a garden tree
How Alcoholic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cider comes from an old French word cidre that was used for fermented drinks. That older word probably came from sicera, meaning 'strong' or 'intoxicating drink', so it is easy to remember that cider is an apple drink that can be alcoholic or non-alcoholic.