sherry
Collocations
7(noun.)
ADJ
small | cream, dry, sweet | cooking
QUANT
bottle, glass
VERB + SHERRY
have
After dinner, my grandmother likes to have a glass of sherry while reading the newspaper.
drink, sip
SHERRY + NOUN
glass
Definitions
noun
A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
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?
name
A female given name from English, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.
Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and an M.I.T. professor who worked with Weizenbaum, coined the term the “Eliza Effect” to describe people convincing themselves that a technology that seemed human was more intelligent, perceptive and complex than it actually was.
A surname.
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6He 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
WiktionaryThey produce several quality sherries.
WiktionaryWould you like a sherry?
WiktionarySherry Turkle, a psychologist and an M.I.T. professor who worked with Weizenbaum, coined the term the “Eliza Effect” to describe people convincing themselves that a technology that seemed human was mo
WiktionaryYes, I'll have sherry.
Tatoeba · #53680Gabriel took nothing but the hot soup and a little sherry.
Tatoeba · #63576