cerise
/səˈɹiːz/
cerise noun: a deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
Noun
cerise (countable and uncountable, plural cerises)
- A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
- Before us lay the autumn tinted woods glimmering in gold, purple, green, and cerise.1927, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, E.P. Dutton & Co., page 67
- His bold patterns in vivid colours predated the arrival in Paris of the Ballets Russes, though his later designs reflect the canary yellows, bright blues, jades, cerises […]1980, Donald Pavey, Color, page 116
Adjective
cerise (comparative more cerise, superlative most cerise)
Proper noun capitalized: Cerise
Cerise (plural Cerises)
- A female given name from French.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
cerise meaning in Bengali
cerise in Bengali
- উজ্জ্বল লাল, চেরি রঙের
Forms of cerise
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cerises |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more cerise |
| superlative | most cerise |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Cerises |
Origin of cerise
Borrowed from French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Latin cerasium. Doublet of cherry and kirsch.
Words formed from cerise
Words that rhyme with cerise
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- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
Questions about cerise
- What does cerise mean?
- Cerise means a deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
- What is cerise in Bengali?
- Cerise in Bengali is উজ্জ্বল লাল, চেরি রঙের. See Cerise meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is cerise?
- Cerise can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cerise?
- Cerise is pronounced /səˈɹiːz/.
- What is the plural of cerise?
- The plural of cerise is cerises.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cerise (page history and authors); Cerise (page history and authors); cerise (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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