CIDER
What does "CIDER" mean?
A drink made from the fermented or pressed juice of apples.
Meanings
- An alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice. They ordered a pint of dry cider at the country pub.
- Unfermented, cloudy apple juice, especially in North America. In autumn we drink warm cider with a stick of cinnamon.
Did you know?
- 'Cider' traces back to the Hebrew word 'shekar', meaning strong drink: early Bible translators rendered it as Greek 'sikera' and Latin 'sicera', and only in English did it narrow to mean apple drink specifically.
Word origin
From Hebrew 'shekar', 'strong drink', via Greek 'sikera' and Latin 'sicera' into Old French 'sidre'; the meaning narrowed to apple drink in English.
Remember it
CIDER = 'C' + 'IDER'; sounds like 'sigh, dear' - the sigh of a crisp autumn apple.
A little poem
Bruised windfall apples-
what fell and was nearly lost
warms us by spring's edge.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told the apples to settle their differences. Now they're all on the same cider.
What it teaches
The best cider comes from the apples too bruised to sell whole.
Quick facts
What does CIDER mean?
A drink made from the fermented or pressed juice of apples.
Is CIDER a valid word?
Yes — CIDER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CIDER?
CIDER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does CIDER come from?
From Hebrew 'shekar', 'strong drink', via Greek 'sikera' and Latin 'sicera' into Old French 'sidre'; the meaning narrowed to apple drink in English.
What can CIDER teach us?
The best cider comes from the apples too bruised to sell whole.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.