cider
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Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A drink with alcohol in it that is made from the juice of apples.
This pub keeps four kinds of dry cider on tap.
The farm presses its own apples into strong cloudy cider.
Cider tastes sweeter than beer but can be just as strong.
Common collocations: dry cider · sweet cider · a pint of cider · hard cider · cider apples
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- C1
In American English, a cloudy apple drink with no alcohol, often drunk warm.
They heated cider with cinnamon and cloves for the evening.
The cloudy cider from the press had no alcohol at all.
A jug of cold cider stood beside the plate of pancakes.
Common collocations: hot cider · spiced cider · a jug of cider · apple cider
Forms
- plural
- ciders