cherry
/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.18 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The wood of a cherry tree.
noun
noun
A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
Example Sentences
- ""Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling.""
- "Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy"
- "Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted."
- "So what bitch, I busted your cherry – / Hell fucking no, I don’t wanna git married"
- "Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1"
- "Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2"
Etymology
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
- British English: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
Usage
Inflected Forms
cherries (plural)
cherrier (comparative)
more cherry (comparative)
cherriest (superlative)
most cherry (superlative)
cherries (present, singular)
cherrying (participle, present)
cherried (participle, past)
cherried (past)