English Explanatory Dictionary

cherry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
  2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
  3. The wood of a cherry tree.
  4. Cherry red.
  5. The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
  6. Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
  7. A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
  8. A red cricket ball.
  9. A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
  10. A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
  11. The burning tip of a cigarette.
  12. A woman’s breasts.
adj
  1. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
  2. Of a bright red color; cherry red.
  3. In excellent condition; mint condition.
verb
  1. To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
  2. To cheer, to delight.
name
  1. A female given name from English, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name.
  2. A surname.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
  4. A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona.
  5. A village in Bureau County, Illinois.
  6. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.
  7. Two townships in Pennsylvania, in Butler County and Sullivan County.
  8. An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
  9. An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.
noun
  1. someone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Pronunciation

/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/ En-uk-cherry.ogg en-us-cherry.ogg /ˈt͡ʃeɹi/ en-au-cherry.ogg /ˈt͡ʃɛɾe/ /-ɾɪ/ /-ɾi/ /ˈt͡ʃɛɾi/

Word forms

cherry cherries cherrier more cherry cherriest most cherry cherrying cherried

Etymology

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.

Synonyms

cherrytop

Related words

gean cerise black birch Chinese lantern kirsch marasca morello myrobalan oxheart sweet birch tomatillo tommyto 🍒

Derived words

bird cherry bite at the cherry bite of the cherry black cherry Brazil cherry Brazilian cherry Cayenne cherry cherpumple cherried cherries and berries cherries jubilee cherryade cherry alder cherry angioma cherry Bakewell cherry blossom front cherry-bomb cherry boy Cherrybrook Cherry Burton cherry coal cherry graph Cherry Green Cherry Grove cherry guava Cherry Hill Cherry Hinton cherrying cherry knocking cherry laurel cherryless cherry light cherrylike cherry-merry cherry-merry-bamboo cherry nose cherry on the cake cherry on top cherry orange Cherry Orchard cherry pick cherry-picker Cherry Picker cherry picking cherry-picking cherry pit cherry-pop cherry-popper cherry-popping cherry-red cherry salmon cherry satinash cherry slug cherrytini cherry top cherry topper cherry-tree cherry tree Cherry Tree Hill cherry wood

Translations

Bulgarian: черешов Catalan: cirera Czech: višňová Danish: kirsebærfarvet Finnish: kirsikanpunainen Galician: cereixa Greek: κερασί Greek: κερασένιο Greek: άλικο Italian: ciliegia Lithuanian: vyšninis Norwegian: kirsebær Polish: wiśniowy Portuguese: cereja Russian: вишнёвый Spanish: guinda Spanish: cereza Swahili: rangi ya cheri Swedish: körsbärsfärgad Swedish: körsbär Turkish: kiraz rengi Turkish: vişne rengi Ukrainian: вишневий Vietnamese: màu đỏ anh đào
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