sherry definition
Overview
This page has 10 definitions of sherry with English translations in 6 languages. Sherry is a noun. Examples of how to use sherry in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
See also: Sherry
English sherry definition
Etymology
Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).
Pronunciation
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
Descendants
- → Czech: šery, sherry
- → German: Sherry
- → Finnish: sherry
- → French: sherry
- → Italian: sherry
- → Japanese: シェリー (sherī)
- → Polish: sherry
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin script: šeri
- Cyrillic script: шери
- → Yiddish: שערי (sheri)
Translations
fortified wine
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variety of sherry
glass of sherry
See also
Czech sherry definition
Noun
sherry n
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Finnish sherry definition
Etymology
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. | |||
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Further reading
- "sherry" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
French sherry definition
Noun
sherry m (plural sherrys)
Further reading
- “sherry”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian sherry definition
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English sherry.
Noun
sherry m (invariable)
Polish sherry definition
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English sherry.
Pronunciation
Noun
sherry n (indeclinable)
- sherry (fortified wine)