Definition of CIDER

Examples of cider in a Sentence

a cup of apple cider

Recent Examples on the Web

Pubs pretty much exclusively carry the big guys – Guinness, Smithwick’s, Harp, Murphy’s, Beamish, O’Hara’s, and some macro ciders – along with a few mass-market Irish whiskeys. — Tara Nurin, Philly.com, "In Dublin, a story of whiskey is more than just one night at the pub," 8 June 2018 Sanford Tuffy’s Bottle Shop & Lounge (200 S. Myrtle Ave.): Drink up a local craft beer — or a cider at this new bar and cidery. — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Take on a Central Florida beer crawl," 24 May 2018 Among Friday’s half-dozen offerings was an amber ale called Amberlance, an IPA dubbed Pew Pew, and Weerder, which Japs described as having a cider or almost fruit soda taste. — Don Stacom, Courant Community, "Five Churches Brewing Joins Drive To Make New Britain A Craft Beer Hub," 30 Mar. 2018 Over the past few weeks, Coca-Cola’s European bottler temporarily halted some of its production lines and Booker, the U.K.’s biggest wholesaler, was forced to ration sales of beer, ciders and soft drinks. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "A Carbon Dioxide Shortage Is Threatening the U.K.’s Supply of Beer and Crumpets," 3 July 2018 The ciders will be available on tap starting July 3 for $7 a glass, with $1 benefitting the Mesa Veteran’s Resource Center. — Georgann Yara, azcentral, "Happy birthday, America! 35 restaurants celebrating with Fourth of July food, drink deals," 29 June 2018 Among the half-dozen drafts, the local Prima farmhouse cider is an excellent pairing with many of these dishes, and, amid a trio of cocktails, the Coalmine's Canary is a truly delightful refresher of Malort, gin, and grapefruit. — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, "Andersonville’s Passerotto is a tale of two peninsulas," 21 June 2018 More than 70 craft ciders and beers will also be on tap from local brewers. — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, "Summer barbeque festivals at theme parks," 24 May 2018 The new cider is 5.5% ABV and is available across the country in both six and 12-packs now. — Lyndsey Matthews, Marie Claire, "This New Rosé Hard Cider Is Here to Give You a Break from Your Go-To Wine," 22 Feb. 2018

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History and Etymology for cider

Middle English sider, sedyr, cidre "alcoholic drink (in Biblical translations and references), cider," borrowed from Anglo-French sizre, ciser, cydre, going back to Gallo-Romance *cīsera, by metathesis form of Late Latin (Vulgate) sīcera "alcoholic drink," borrowed from Greek (Septuagint) síkera, borrowed from Hebrew shēkhār, from a Semitic base š-k-r, whence Hebrew shākhar "become drunk," Arabic sikara

Note: The medieval French form sizre is attested once, in the 12th-century Cambridge, or Eadwine Psalter, where it appears as a translation of the Latin siceram in Psalm 68:14 (the Vulgate has vinum in this passage). (For other medieval outcomes and modern dialect forms see Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, v. 11, pp. 589-90.) Presumably *cīs(ĕ)ra yielded *tsizdra, which with loss of the internal sibilant yielded cidre (see Pierre Fouché, Phonétique historique du français, vol. 3 [Paris: Klincksieck, 1966], p. 822). Latin sīcera and its vernacular outcomes were likely disseminated and applied to the fermented juice of fruit, especially apples, in monasteries, particularly in non-wine-producing areas of Europe such as Normandy; Norman localization would also account for the thorough penetration of the word into Anglo-French.

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