sherry
/ˈʃɛɹi/
sherry noun: a fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
Noun
sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)
- 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
- A variety of sherry.
- They produce several quality sherries.
- A glass of sherry.
- Would you like a sherry?
Proper noun capitalized: Sherry
Sherry (plural Sherrys)
- A female given name from English, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.
- Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and an M.I.T. professor who worked with Weizenbaum, coined the term the “Eliza Effect” to describe people convincing themselves that a technology that seemed human was more intelligent, perceptive and complex than it actually was.2025 December 19, Kashmir Hill, “Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2025
- A surname.
sherry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sherry in Hindi
- शेरी, शेरि
sherry in Tamil
- முந்திரி இன்தேறல்வகை
sherry in Marathi
- शेरी, शेरि
sherry in Urdu
- شیری
More languagesFewer languages
- sherry in Bengali
- শেরি
- sherry in Telugu
- షెర్రీ, షెరీ, షేరి
- sherry in Malayalam
- ഷെറി, ഷെരി, ഷേരി
- sherry in Kannada
- ಶೇರಿ, ಶೆರ್ರಿ
- sherry in Punjabi
- ਸ਼ੈਰੀ, ਸ਼ੇਰੀ
- sherry in Gujarati
- શેરિ
- sherry in Odia
- ଶେରି, ଶେରୀ
- sherry in Nepali
- शेरी, शेरि
- sherry in Tagalog
- heres
- sherry in Arabic
- شِيرِي širī, خَمْرَة ḵamra
- sherry in Malay
- syeri
Examples of sherry in a sentence
- Consider, if you will, the possibility that the sherry glasses were misplaced accidentally.
- I filled the cooking pot with water, and poured some cooking sherry into the skillet.
- Sherry is made by fortifying wine.
Forms of sherry
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sherries |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sherrys |
| alternative form | Cheri |
| alternative form | Sheri |
| alternative form | Sherri |
Origin of sherry
Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Spanish Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).
Words formed from sherry
Phrases with sherry
Words that rhyme with sherry
Questions about sherry
- What does sherry mean?
- Sherry means a fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
- What is sherry in Hindi?
- Sherry in Hindi is शेरी, शेरि. See Sherry meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sherry?
- Sherry can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sherry?
- Sherry is pronounced /ˈʃɛɹi/.
- What is the plural of sherry?
- The plural of sherry is sherries.
Words near sherry in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sherry (page history and authors); Sherry (page history and authors); sherry (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sherry (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sherry (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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