Other forms: ciders
Cider is an alcoholic drink pressed from apples. A pint of cider, dry cider, cider apples.
In Britain it is always alcoholic; in North America cider means unfiltered apple juice and the alcoholic kind is called hard cider, which causes constant confusion. Cider apples are bitter varieties nobody would eat. The word came through Latin from a Hebrew word for strong drink.
1nounciderAn alcoholic drink pressed from apples.
“On summer evenings, we sat in the pub garden drinking cold cider.”
cider is a drink.
Old French sidre comes through Latin from Greek sikera, from a Hebrew word meaning strong drink.
Middle English
sider
English, today
cider
Built from
From Middle English sider. From Middle English sider, cidre, sidre, from Old French cisdre, sidre (“beverage made from fermented apples”), from Medieval Latin sīcera, from Ancient Greek σίκερα (“fermented liquor, strong drink”), from Hebrew שֵׁכָר (“liquor”). a doublet of cyser. Partially displaced earlier apple wine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA