different between cider vs cyder

English

Etymology

From Middle English sider, cidre, sidre, from Old French cisdre, sidre (“beverage made from fermented apples”), from Medieval Latin s?cera, from Ancient Greek ?????? (síkera, “fermented liquor, strong drink”), from Hebrew ??????? (š???r, “liquor”). Doublet of cyser.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sa??.d?/, enPR: s??d?r
• (New England, Great Lakes) IPA^(key): [?s???.d?(?)]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sa??.d?/
• Rhymes: -a??d?(?)

Noun

cider (countable and uncountable, plural ciders)

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider
2. (US, Canada) A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice).

   She liked an aged cider. He liked a harder cider.

3. (Australia) A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples.
4. (Japan, South Korea) A non-alcoholic, lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage.
5. (countable) A cup, glass, or serving of any of these beverages.

Synonyms

• (alcoholic beverage): hard cider (US)
• (US: non-alcoholic beverage): sweet cider

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Calvados
• perry
• scrumpy

Anagrams

• Deric, IRCed, Redic, cried, deric, dicer, riced

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sider, from Old French sidre, from Latin sicera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si.d?r/
• Hyphenation: ci?der
• Rhymes: -id?r

Noun

cider m (plural ciders, diminutive cidertje n)

1. cider.

   Synonyms: appelcider, appelwijn

Related terms

• sikker
• sjikker

English

Noun

cyder (countable and uncountable, plural cyders)

1. Archaic spelling of cider.

Anagrams

• cedry, decry

Middle English

Noun

cyder

1. Alternative form of sider