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sherries

sherries is the plural of sherry.

Meaning of sherry

Noun

sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)

  1. (usually) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
    • He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of...1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind
  2. (usually) A variety of sherry.
    • They produce several quality sherries.
  3. (usually) A glass of sherry.
    • Would you like a sherry?

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Phrases with sherries

Questions about sherries

What is sherries the plural of?
Sherries is the plural of sherry.

Words near sherries in the dictionary

  1. Sherrers
  2. Sherri
  3. Sherrick
  4. Sherridon
  5. sherried
  6. sherries
  7. sherrif
  8. sherriff
  9. sherriffs
  10. sherrification
  11. sherrified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sherries (page history and authors); sherry (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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