cider

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an alcoholic drink made by fermenting apple juice, often with carbonation; called hard cider in North America

   The farm ferments its own dry cider from local apples.

2. 2
   noun

   in North America, unfiltered nonalcoholic apple juice

   They warmed the sweet cider with cinnamon and cloves.

From Middle English sider, through Old French sidre and Medieval Latin sicera from Greek sikera, ultimately from Hebrew shekhar, 'strong drink.' The word originally referred broadly to an intoxicating drink before narrowing to an apple beverage.

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