Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The juice pressed from fruits, especially apples, used as a beverage or to make other products, such as vinegar.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A strong liquor.
- n. Formerly, any liquor made of the juice of fruits; now, the expressed juice of apples, either before or after fermentation.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable An alcoholic, sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples.
- 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.)
- n. Australia, uncountable A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples.
- n. in Japan A non-alcoholic drink, normally carbonated; equivalent to soft drink.
- n. Any particular type of one of these beverages.
- n. countable A cup, glass, or serving of any of these beverages.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a beverage made from juice pressed from apples
Etymologies
- 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)
- 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)
Examples
“The term cider entered the English language as a corruption of sekar, a Hebrew word for strong drink which itself derived from the ancient Greek sikera.”
“In some places of England there is a kind of drink made of apples which they call cider or pomage, but that of pears is called perry, and both are ground and pressed in presses made for the nonce.”
“Or be disciplined and then ahve have a blow out of pork and apple suaages braised in cider - 2 birds, one delicious stone!!”
“Add cornstarch, sugar and apple cider (use apple juice if no cider is available) and stir with a spatula to coat all apple slices evenly.”
“Once the cider is steaming hot, stir in about 1 1/2 tbsp caramel sauce, then add whipped cream and another drizzle of caramel.”
“If you must have your bubbles, sparkling cider is available at the halfway point of the four-mile course.nyrr. org”
“Apple cider is a type of unfiltered apple juice made from pressing ripe apples to remove the liquid from them.”
“It can be served chilled, but one of the most popular - and most delicious - things to do with a batch of apple cider is to spice it and serve it heated.”
“Also, and from limited amount of tasting, US cider is pretty awful compared to European cider.”
“I was baking pork in cider, cream, rosemary and mustard, a dish I'd made many times before.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cider’.
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Realia from Everywhere
Culturally defined terms and expressions from the four corners of the world
fjord, mistral steppe, tornado, tsunami, polder, kiwi, koala, sequoia, Abominable Snowman, paprika, spaghetti, empanada and 299 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Wort to the wise
Brewing terms
wort, gruit, metheglin, mead, perry, mulsum, finings, irish moss, malt, hops, morat, melomel and 43 more...
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The Sweet Smell of...
Things that smell good.
rain, rose, cinnamon, clove, jasmine, apple, sandalwood, rexo, bamboo, bacon, maple, eucalyptus and 36 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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minneapolitan's Words
hissyfit, fussbudget, aghast, lament, trichinellosis, tranche, decadent, aspersion, pejorative, aniline, galoshes, accede and 200 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cider.
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