sherry
See also: Sherry
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English sherris (interpreted as plural), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former name of Jerez.
Pronunciation
Audio (US): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛri
Noun
sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)
- (uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
- 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 binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
- A variety of sherry.
- They produce several quality sherries.
- A glass of sherry.
- Would you like a sherry?
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
fortified wine
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variety of sherry
glass of sherry
See also
Czech
Noun
sherry n
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
sherry
Declension
Inflection of sherry (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | sherry | sherryt | ||
genitive | sherryn | sherryjen | ||
partitive | sherryä | sherryjä | ||
illative | sherryyn | sherryihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | sherry | sherryt | ||
accusative | nom. | sherry | sherryt | |
gen. | sherryn | |||
genitive | sherryn | sherryjen | ||
partitive | sherryä | sherryjä | ||
inessive | sherryssä | sherryissä | ||
elative | sherrystä | sherryistä | ||
illative | sherryyn | sherryihin | ||
adessive | sherryllä | sherryillä | ||
ablative | sherryltä | sherryiltä | ||
allative | sherrylle | sherryille | ||
essive | sherrynä | sherryinä | ||
translative | sherryksi | sherryiksi | ||
abessive | sherryttä | sherryittä | ||
instructive | — | sherryin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian
Noun
sherry m (uncountable)
- sherry
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