SHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sherry mean? 

• SHERRY (noun)
  The noun SHERRY has 1 sense:

1. dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif

  Familiarity information: SHERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sherry" is a kind of...):

fortified wine (wine to which alcohol (usually grape brandy) has been added)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sherry"):

Manzanilla (very dry pale sherry from Spain)

Amontillado (pale medium-dry sherry from Spain)

 Context examples 

“‘Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. 6d., glass sherry, 8d.’ I see nothing in that.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He described it as an apartment of the most sumptuous nature, and said that he had drunk brown East India sherry there, of a quality so precious as to make a man wink.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was he who ordered his valet to put half a dozen of sherry by his bed and call him the day after to-morrow.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I flew downstairs and returned with it, taking care to smell and taste it, lest it, too, were drugged like the decanter of sherry which I found on the table.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was more laughter at this, and Mr. Quinion said he would ring the bell for some sherry in which to drink to Brooks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive hotels.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The decanter of sherry was on the table half full, but there was a queer, acrid smell about.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Wilson and eight others were wriggling on the top of each other on the floor, and the blood and the brown sherry on that table turn me sick now when I think of it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the day when I was articled, no festivity took place, beyond my having sandwiches and sherry into the office for the clerks, and going alone to the theatre at night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)