Meaning

2 senses

  1. (dated, obsolete, transitive)To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.

  2. (dated, obsolete, transitive)To cheer, to delight.

Examples

316 sentences

  1. The cherry trees are about to blossom.

    Скоро заквітне черешня. — deniko

    ruСкоро зацветёт черешня. — shanghainese

    deDie Kirschbäume stehen kurz vor der Blüte. — qweruiop

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  2. There's an old cherry tree in the garden.

    У саду росте стара вишня. — deniko

    ruВ саду есть старая вишня. — Balamax

    deIm Garten steht ein alter Kirschbaum. — Yorwba

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  3. Tom cut down a cherry tree.

    Том зрубав вишню. — deniko

    ruТом срубил вишнёвое дерево. — marafon

    deTom hat einen Kirschbaum gefällt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Cherry blossoms last only for a few days, a week at the most.

    Цвітіння сакури триває лише кілька днів, найдовше - тиждень. — anastasishko

    ruЦветение сакуры всего лишь длится несколько дней и никогда больше недели. — FeuDRenais

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  5. I like cherries.

    Я люблю черешню. — deniko

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Origin

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.

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Forms

cherries, cherrying, cherried, cherried
Base formcherry · to cherry
3rd person singularcherries
Present participlecherrying
Past simplecherried
Past participlecherried

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycherry
he, she, itcherries

Past simpleLesson

all personscherried

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cherried
he, she, ithas cherried

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cherry

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

6 patterns
  • cherry blossoms
  • the cherry blossoms
  • cherry trees
  • cherry blossoms are
  • cherry tree in
  • the cherry trees

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
chemotherapyB2chequeA2chequercherishB1cherubchessA2chessboardchestA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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