sherry

Speech parts

1. sherry - Noun

2. Sherry - Proper noun

Meaning

A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

amontillado fortified wine oloroso dry sherry sweet sherry bordeaux Bahrain burgundy marsala madeira brandy rye claret medoc port
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Antonyms

solid food Adam's wine mocktail on the wagon adam's beer atlanta special

Hypernyms

fortified wine

Hyponyms

amontillado manzanilla

Phrases with the word

sweet sherry dry sherry glass of sherry medium-dry sherry

Examples

Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. Samuel Johnson

They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler. Washington Irving

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. Emma Thompson

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you. Copyright © by Sherry Argov. Sherry Argov

I ... am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves. Emily Dickinson

I knew Tim Pastoor. I knew Sherry Ford. I knew many of the individuals who would follow me around. I knew who they were. I knew they had access to my email. Tyrone Hayes

Close letter words and terms

Sherrod Sherron Sherrow sherry vinegar sherrylike sherryvallies