CIDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cider mean? 

• CIDER (noun)
  The noun CIDER has 1 sense:

1. a beverage made from juice pressed from apples

  Familiarity information: CIDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A beverage made from juice pressed from apples

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cider; cyder

Hypernyms ("cider" is a kind of...):

beverage; drink; drinkable; potable (any liquid suitable for drinking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cider"):

hard cider (alcoholic drink from fermented cider; 'cider' and 'cyder' are European (especially British) usages for the fermented beverage)

scrumpy (strong cider (as made in western England))

sweet cider (unfermented cider)

 Context examples 

This liquor tasted like a small cider, and was not unpleasant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)