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Meaning of Cherry | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
ˈt͡ʃɛɹi

Definitions

  1. A female given name from English, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name.
  2. someone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.
  3. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
  4. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
  5. A surname.
  6. The wood of a cherry tree.
  7. A number of places in the United States:
  8. A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona.
  9. Cherry red.
  10. A village in Bureau County, Illinois.
  11. The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
  12. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.
  13. Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
    slang
  14. Two townships in Pennsylvania, in Butler County and Sullivan County.
  15. A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
  16. An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
  17. A red cricket ball.
    slang
  18. An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.
  19. A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
    slang
  20. A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
  21. The burning tip of a cigarette.

Equivalents

Azərbaycanca albalı
Беларуская чарэшня
Български вишна череша
বাংলা করজ
བོད་སྐད སེའུ
Català cirera cirerer
Ελληνικά κεράσι κερασιά
Español cereza cerezo guinda guindo
Eesti kirsipuu kirss
Euskara gerezi
فارسی گیلاس
Gàidhlig siris sirist
עברית דובדבן
Magyar cseresznye meggy
Հայերեն բալ բալենի կեռաս
Bahasa Indonesia ceri kersen
Italiano ciliegia ciliegio
ქართული ალუბალი ბალი
Қазақша шие
한국어 버찌 아다 앵두 처녀 체리
Kurdî cêrî kerş kîraz sirişt
Кыргызча чие
Latina cerasum cerasus
Lëtzebuergesch Kiischt Kiischtebam
Lietuvių vyšnia vyšninis
Latviešu ķirsis
Македонски вишна цреша
Монгол интоор
Malti ċirasa
မြန်မာဘာသာ ချယ်ရီ
Português cabaço cereja cerejeira cherry
Slovenčina čerešňa
Slovenščina češnja
Kiswahili cheri mcheri
Тоҷикӣ гелос
Tagalog seresa
Türkçe kiraz vişne
Українська вишня черешня
Oʻzbekcha olcha
Tiếng Việt anh đào

Examples

“"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”
“The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.”
“Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.”
“"What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.”
““This is a cartel operation,” Hackett said as Larson activated the dash-mounted cherry”
“I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.”
“'As you knows Mrs Chuzzlewit, you knows, p’raps, what her chris’en name is?' Mrs Gamp observed. 'Charity,' said Bailey. 'That it ain’t!' cried Mrs Gamp. 'Cherry, then,' said Bailey. 'Cherry's short for it. It’s all the same.'”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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