Meanings
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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.
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2
adj
Of a bright or deep red colour.
He drove a shiny cherry red sports car.
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3
adj
In excellent or like-new condition.
He restored the old car until it was in cherry condition.
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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.