English Explanatory Dictionary

berry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
  2. A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
  3. A coffee bean.
  4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
  5. A police car.
  6. A dollar.
verb
  1. To pick berries.
  2. To bear or produce berries.
noun
  1. A mound; a barrow.
noun
  1. A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
  2. An excavation; a military mine.
verb
  1. To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
  2. To thresh (grain).
name
  1. A surname from Middle English.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A place name:
  4. A town in Fayette County, Alabama, United States, named after Thompson Berry.
  5. A minor city in Harrison County, Kentucky, United States.
  6. A town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.
  7. A municipality in Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  8. A village in the City of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia, named after Alexander Berry.
name
  1. A female given name from English.
name
  1. A former province in Centre-Val de Loire region, France.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɛɹi/ bĕr'i en-us-ne-berry.ogg en-us-berry.ogg

Word forms

berry berries berrying berried berye berie

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English berye English berry From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær. The slang sense "police car" may come from the lights on the vehicles' roofs.

Synonyms

berry

Related words

:Category:Berries

Derived words

acai berry appleberry apple-berry Avignon berry balloon berry baneberry barberry bayberry beachberry bearberry beautyberry berryade berry alder berry-bearing alder berry blue Berry Brow berry-button berry catchfly berry-cone berryeater Berry Hill berryish Berry Jerry berryless berrylike Berry Park berrypecker berry sugar berrytini berry wax bilberry billberry blackberry blaeberry bloodberry blueberry bogberry boxberry boysenberry bramberry brambleberry bread-berry brierberry brown as a berry buckberry buckthorn berry buffalo berry buffalo-berry buffaloberry bulberry bullberry bull berry bunchberry cackleberry candleberry caperberry caper berry caper-berry cassioberry chasteberry
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