sherry

Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛɹi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹi

sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)

1. (uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     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.

2. A variety of sherry.

   They produce several quality sherries.

3. A glass of sherry.

   Would you like a sherry?

• Madeira, madeira
• Marsala, marsala
• Porto, port, porto

• → Czech: šery, sherry
• → German: Sherry
• → Finnish: sherry
• → French: sherry
• → Italian: sherry
• → Japanese: シェリー (sherī)
• → Polish: sherry
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: šeri

  Cyrillic script: шери

• → Yiddish: שערי (sheri)

• amontillado

• šery

Unadapted borrowing from English sherry.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɛrɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɛrɪ
• Hyphenation: sher‧ry

sherry n (indeclinable)

1. sherry (fortified wine)
2. sherry (variety of sherry)
3. sherry (glass of sherry)

• “sherry”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sherry”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “šery”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from English sherry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛ.ri/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sher‧ry
• Rhymes: -ɛri

sherry m (plural sherry's, diminutive sherry'tje n)

1. sherry

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “sherry1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

From English sherry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeri/, [ˈʃe̞ri]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃerːy/, [ˈʃe̞rːy]
• Rhymes: -eri
• Syllabification^(key): sher‧ry
• Hyphenation^(key): sher‧ry

sherry

1. sherry

• “sherry”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

sherry m (plural sherrys)

1. sherry

• “sherry”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English sherry.

sherry m (invariable)

1. sherry

Unadapted borrowing from English sherry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɛ.rɘ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrɘ
• Syllabification: she‧rry

sherry n (indeclinable)

1. sherry (fortified wine)

• sherry in Polish dictionaries at PWN