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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The juice pressed from fruits, especially apples, used as a beverage or to make other products, such as vinegar.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A strong liquor.
  2. n. Formerly, any liquor made of the juice of fruits; now, the expressed juice of apples, either before or after fermentation.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable An alcoholic, sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples.
  2. n. US, uncountable A non-alcoholic, still beverage consisting of the (usually unfiltered and still containing pulp) juice of early-harvest apples. (Without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice.)
  3. n. Australia, uncountable A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples.
  4. n. in Japan A non-alcoholic drink, normally carbonated; equivalent to soft drink.
  5. n. Any particular type of one of these beverages.
  6. n. countable A cup, glass, or serving of any of these beverages.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a beverage made from juice pressed from apples

Etymologies

  1. Middle English cidre or sidre, from Old French cisdre or sidre ("beverage made from fermented apples"), from Medieval Latin sīcera, from Ancient Greek σίκερα ("fermented liquor, strong drink"), of Semitic origin. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English sidre, from Old French, from Late Latin sīcera, intoxicating drink, from Greek sikera, of Semitic origin; see škr in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear William Roberts advertised in the Maryland Gazette in 1745 that his servant, John Powell, had not in fact run away, but had 'only gone into the country a cider drinking' and was again prepared to repair watches and clocks.
    —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 122 Jun 18, 2010

  • sionnach It could be pressed from any of the entries on this list (doctor deterrents) Dec 3, 2008

  • bilby Indeed. Dec 3, 2008

  • whichbe It's a applecide! Dec 3, 2008

  • yarb Why? Dec 3, 2008

  • whichbe I like the drink, but I find this word a bit unnerving... Dec 2, 2008

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