beer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt; often with hops or some other substance (like gruit) to impart a bitter flavor.

   Beer is brewed all over the world.

2. 2
   noun

   A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.

   I bought a few beers from the shop for the party.

3. 3
   noun

   A variety of the above beverages.

   Pilsner is one of the most commonly served beers in Europe.

4. 4
   verb

   To give beer to (someone).

   No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.

5. 5
   verb

   To drink beer.

   In Japan, students on a Friday night announce “Let's beer!”

6. 6
   noun

   One who is or exists.

   That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer. And even when he was three or four, it wasn't hard for me to know that this wasn't going to be easy. Because Albert was a beer. Born that way.

7. 7
   noun

   a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops

8. 8
   noun

   A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *beuzą Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ Old English bēor Middle English bere English beer From Middle English bere, from Old English bēor (“beer”) (Oxford OED notes: "rare, except in poetry"), from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”) (putatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewsóm), meaning “brewer's yeast”. However, also see the "beer" entry on EtymOnline (q.v.), which links a connection to monastic Vulgar Latin *biber (“a drink, beverage”), from Latin bibere (“to drink”). Samuel Johnson in his famous 18th-century A Dictionary of the English Lan…