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cherry

/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/

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cherry noun: a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.

cherry: a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem
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Noun (1)

cherry (plural cherries)

  1. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
  2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
  3. The wood of a cherry tree.
  4. Cherry red.
  5. The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
  6. (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
    • "Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling."1965 [1955], J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, New York: Delacorte Press, page 39
    • Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy1979, David Bowie, Brian Eno, “Boys Keep Swinging”, in Lodger, performed by David Bowie
  7. A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
    • Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;12004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Berlin […] : Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 210
    • Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 22005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 74
  8. (slang) A red cricket ball.
    • The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.2000, Woorkheri Raman, “Indians adopt safety first tactics”, in ESPNcricinfo, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022, retrieved 25 Nov 2024
    • Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.2007, Ben Dirs, “England v West Indies 1st Test”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2016, retrieved 25 Nov 2024
  9. (slang) A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
  10. A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
    • "What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.2009, Sandra Brown, Smash Cut, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 249
    • “This is a cartel operation,” Hackett said as Larson activated the dash-mounted cherry2011, Rick Mofina, In Desperation, Don Mills, Ontario: MIRA, →ISBN, page 44
    Synonyms:
    cherrytop
  11. The burning tip of a cigarette.
    • I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 115
  12. (euphemistic, slang) A woman’s breasts.

Adjective

cherry (comparative cherrier or more cherry, superlative cherriest or most cherry)

  1. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
  2. Of a bright red color; cherry red.
  3. (informal, often) In excellent condition; mint condition.
    • A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.2003, John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 108
    • All of my action figures are cherry2006, “White & Nerdy”, in "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics), Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Verb

cherry (third-person singular simple present cherries, present participle cherrying, simple past and past participle cherried)

  1. (dated, obsolete, transitive) To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
  2. (dated, obsolete, transitive) To cheer, to delight.

Proper noun capitalized: Cherry

Cherry

  1. A female given name from English, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name.
    • 'As you knows Mrs Chuzzlewit, you knows, p’raps, what her chris’en name is?' Mrs Gamp observed.
      'Charity,' said Bailey.
      'That it ain’t!' cried Mrs Gamp.
      'Cherry, then,' said Bailey. 'Cherry's short for it. It’s all the same.'1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC
  2. A surname.
  3. A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona.
  4. A village in Bureau County, Illinois.
  5. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.
  6. Two townships in Pennsylvania, in Butler County and Sullivan County.
  7. An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
  8. An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.

Noun (2) capitalized: Cherry

Cherry (plural Cherries)

  1. someone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.

cherry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

cherry in Hindi

fruit
आलूबालू ālūbālū, ओलची olcī, गिलास gilās

cherry in Tamil

fruit
சேலாப்பழம் cēlāppaḻam

cherry in Marathi

चेरी

cherry in Urdu

fruit
چیری cerī
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cherry in Bengali
চেরি ceri, করজ koroj
cherry in Telugu
చెర్రీ, చెర్రి
cherry in Malayalam
ചെറി ceṟi
cherry in Kannada
ಚೆರ್ರಿ, ಚೆರ್ರೀ
cherry in Punjabi
ਚੈਰੀ cairī, ਸ਼ਾਹਦਾਣਾ śāhdāṇā, ਗਲਾਸ galās
cherry in Gujarati
ચેરી cerī
cherry in Odia
ଚେରି, ଚେରୀ, ଚେରୀକୁ
cherry in Nepali
चेरी
cherry in Pashto
الوبالو alubā́lu
cherry in Tagalog
seresa
cherry in Arabic
كَرَز karaz, كَرَزَة karaza, حَبّ المُلُوك ḥabb al-mulūk, قَرَاسِيَا qarāsiyā
cherry in Malay
ceri
cherry in Indonesian
ceri, pohon ceri
cherry in Persian
گیلاس gilâs
cherry in Thai
เชอร์รี่ chəə-rîi
cherry in Vietnamese
màu đỏ anh đào, quả anh đào, cây anh đào, gỗ anh đào
cherry in Myanmar
ချယ်ရီ hkyairi
Kashmiri
پرَٛبٕدٔر, گِلآس gilās

Examples of cherry in a sentence

  • The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
  • Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.
  • Since the machine was showing two lemons and a cherry, I decided to try a nudge.

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Synonyms of cherry

Forms of cherry

Noun
pluralcherries
pluralCherries
Adjective
comparativecherrier
comparativemore cherry
superlativecherriest
superlativemost cherry
Verb
third-person singular presentcherries
present participlecherrying
past participlecherried
pastcherried

Plural of cherry: cherries

Origin of cherry

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.

Words formed from cherry

Phrases with cherry

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Words that rhyme with cherry

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Questions about cherry

What does cherry mean?
Cherry means a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
What is cherry in Hindi?
Cherry in Hindi is आलूबालू (ālūbālū), ओलची (olcī), गिलास (gilās). See Cherry meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cherry?
Cherry can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cherry?
Cherry is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of cherry?
The plural of cherry is cherries.

Words near cherry in the dictionary

  1. cherries jubilee
  2. cherries on top
  3. cherriest
  4. Cherrington
  5. Cherringtons
  6. cherry
  7. cherry alder
  8. cherry angioma
  9. cherry angiomas
  10. cherry bakewell
  11. cherry bakewell tart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cherry (page history and authors); Cherry (page history and authors); cherry (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cherry (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ചെറി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); cherry (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ચેરી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); cherry (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cherry (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); الوبالو (Pashto) (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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