cherry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small, round, red or dark fruit with a stone in the middle.

   She put a single cherry on top of the cake.

2. 2
   adj

   Of a bright or deep red colour.

   He drove a shiny cherry red sports car.

3. 3
   adj

   In excellent or like-new condition.

   He restored the old car until it was in cherry condition.

Common collocations

• sour cherry Adjective + noun

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.

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