cider

English

Etymology

From Middle English sider, cidre, sidre, from Old French cisdre, sidre (“beverage made from fermented apples”), from Medieval Latin sīcera, from Arabic سِدْر (sidr, “sidr”, literally “Lote tree, or Ziziphus lotus”), from Ancient Greek σίκερα (síkera, “fermented liquor, strong drink”), from Hebrew שֵׁכָר (šēḵār, “liquor”). Doublet of cyser.

Pronunciation

American-style unfiltered, unfermented unpasturized cider (left); Apple juice (right).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ̯.dɚ/, enPR: sīʹdər
• IPA^(key): [ˈsʌɪ̯.də(ɹ)]
• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ̯.də/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯də(ɹ)

Noun

cider (countable and uncountable, plural ciders)

1. (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider
   • 1995, Paul Correnty, The Art of Cidermaking‎^[1], Brewers Publications:

     The procedures for cyser are identical to cider with a notable exception: honey is a much more complex sugar than cane or corn sugars, meaning honey takes a long time to clear and an even longer time (at least six months) to ferment out […]

2. (US, Canada) A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice).

   She liked an aged cider. He liked a harder cider.

3. (Australia) A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples.
4. (in Korea, Japan) A non-alcoholic drink, normally carbonated; equivalent to soft drink.
5. (countable) A cup, glass, or serving of any of these beverages.

Synonyms

• (alcoholic beverage): hard cider (US)
• (US: non-alcoholic beverage): sweet cider

Derived terms

• apple cider
• cider-and
• cider-apple
• cider brandy
• cider cart
• cider-cellar
• cider-cup
• cider gum
• cider-house
• ciderish
• ciderist
• ciderkin
• cider-man
• cider-marc
• cider-master
• cider-mill
• cider oil
• cider press
• cider-pressings
• cider punk
• cider royal
• cider vinegar
• cider-wring
• cidery
• dry cider
• hard cider
• ice cider
• mulled cider
• pear cider
• sparkling apple cider
• sparkling cider
• sparkling ice cider
• sweet cider
• white cider

 

Translations

alcoholic beverage

• Armenian: խնձորօղի (hy) (xnjorōġi)
• Basque: sagardo (eu)
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ябълково вино n (jabǎlkovo vino)
• Catalan: sidra f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蘋果酒／苹果酒 (ping⁴ gwo² zau²), 苹果酒 (ping⁴ gwo² zau²), 西打 (sai¹ daa²)

  Mandarin: 蘋果酒／苹果酒 (zh) (píngguǒjiǔ), 苹果酒 (zh) (píngguǒjiǔ)

• Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān texocooctli
• Cornish: cider m
• Czech: jablečný mošt m
• Dutch: cider (nl) m, appelwijn (nl) m, appelcider m
• Faroese: cider
• Finnish: siideri (fi)
• French: cidre (fr) m
• Galician: sidra (gl) f
• German: Apfelwein (de) m, Apfelmost (de) m (Southern Germany, Switzerland)
• Greek: μηλίτης (el) m (milítis), μηλόκρασο (el) n (milókraso)
• Hebrew: סיידר (he)
• Hungarian: almabor (hu)
• Icelandic: síder, eplavín (is)
• Irish: leann úll m, ceirtlis f
• Italian: sidro (it) m
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• Japanese: シードル (shīdoru)
• Korean: 사이다 (ko) (saida)
• Latvian: sidrs (lv)
• Lithuanian: sidras m
• Macedonian: јаболково вино n (jabolkovo vino)
• Middle English: sider
• Nahuatl: manzanaoctli
• Norman: cidre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sider (no) m

  Nynorsk: sider m

• Old English: æppelwīn n
• Polish: cydr (pl) m, jabłecznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: sidra (pt) f
• Russian: сидр (ru) m (sidr), я́блочное вино́ n (jábločnoje vinó)
• Scottish Gaelic: lionn-ubhal m
• Slovene: jabolčni mošt
• Spanish: sidra (es) f
• Swedish: cider (sv)
• Tagalog: sidra
• Turkish: elma şarabı (tr)
• Welsh: seidr m, osai m (literary), afalwy (literary)

non-alcoholic still beverage

• Bulgarian: ябълков сок m (jabǎlkov sok)
• Czech: jablečný mošt m
• Danish: æblemost
• Finnish: omenamehu (fi)
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• German: Apfelsaft (de) m, Apfelmost (de) m
• Greek: χυμός μήλου m (chymós mílou)
• Russian: я́блочный сок (ru) m (jábločnyj sok)
• Swedish: must (sv)

non-alcoholic sparkling beverage

• Bulgarian: сайдер m (sajder)
• Czech: jablečný mošt m
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• Finnish: omenalimonadi

drink/glass of cider

• Finnish: siideri (fi)
• French: verre de cidre m
• Greek: μηλίτης (el) m (milítis), μηλόκρασο (el) n (milókraso)
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• Italian: bicchiere di sidro m
• Scottish Gaelic: lionn-ubhal m
• Swedish: glas cider n, cider (sv) c

soft drink — see soft drink

See also

• Calvados
• perry
• scrumpy

Anagrams

• Deric, IRCed, Redic, cried, dicer, riced

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sider.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -idər

Noun

cider m (plural ciders, diminutive cidertje n)

1. cider.

   Synonyms: appelcider, appelwijn