Definition of beer
1 : an alcoholic beverage usually made from malted cereal grain (such as barley), flavored with hops, and brewed by slow fermentation
2 : a carbonated nonalcoholic or a fermented slightly alcoholic beverage with flavoring from roots or other plant parts birch beer
3 : fermented mash
4 : a drink of beer
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Examples of beer in a Sentence
Would you like beer with dinner?
The pub brews its own beer.
I'll have a beer, please.
a couple of cold beers
a glass of birch beer
Recent Examples of beer from the Web
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The restaurant also sells salads, focaccia, vegan soups and Italian desserts, plus beer and wine.
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The rope was put in place after Intihuatana was damaged in 2000 when a beer company was filming a commercial and a crane accidentally knocked into the stone.
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The showcase for microbreweries brings in beer makers from various states in the Midwest.
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Strawberry Festival Live music, entertainment, food trucks, a beer garden, a petting zoo, a rock climbing wall and more.
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Trim Tab beer gets off to an early start at around 7-7:30 a.m. when Fischel unloads an entire pallet of barley into a mill that crushes the grains to allow starches and enzymes to crack open.
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The first beer drew out the horror stories, about fights, or a class’s response to the boy who wore high heels and a trench coat.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two men who admitted to blowing smoke into a young alligator’s mouth and pouring beer down its throat have been charged with harassing wildlife.
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In beer, the sugar comes from the starch in malted cereal grain, typically barley.
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Origin and Etymology of beer
Middle English ber, going back to Old English bēor, akin to Old High German bior “beer,” Old Norse bjórr; perhaps all going back to a dissimilated form of Germanic *breura-, a nominal derivative of *brewwan- “to 1brew”
BEER Defined for English Language Learners
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: an alcoholic drink made from malt and flavored with hops
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: a drink made from roots or other parts of plants
BEER Defined for Kids
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: an alcoholic drink made from malt and flavored with hops
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