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Definition: Sherry |
SherryNoun1. Dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Sherry" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "darling". |
Date "sherry" was first used: 1608. (references) |
Etymology: Sherry \Sher"ry\, noun. [So called from Xeres, Spanish town near Cadiz, in Spanish having been formerly pronounced like sh in English.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | SHERRY, proprietor of a New York restaurant where a person feels wealthy while at the table and poor afterward. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sherry is a type of wine originally produced in the Jerez region of Spain. The name results from a mispronunciation of Jerez in English. Sherry is a fortified wine. Spanish producers have registered the names Jerez / Xerés / Sherry and will prosecute producers of similar wines from other places using the same name. However the name Sherry is used as a semi-generic in the United States where it must be labeled with a region of origin such as American Sherry or California Sherry.
Three types of grapes may be used in Spain for making sherry: Palomino, Pedro Ximenez, and Muscat (Moscatel). Sherry made in other countries often uses other grape varieties.
Sherry differs from other wines because of how it is treated after fermentation. It is first fortified with spirits and then if destined to be fino style a yeast called flor is allowed to grow on top. Oloroso style is fortified to a strength where the flor cannot grow.
Sherry is then aged in the solera system where new wine is put into wine barrels at the top of a series of 4 to 9 barrels. Each year half of the wine in a barrel is moved into the next barrel down. At the end of the series only half the barrel is bottled and sold. So the youngest wine going into the bottle is as old as the number of barrels in the series and every bottle also contains some much older wine.
Sherry was a major wine export to the United Kingdom and many English companies and styles developed. Many of the Jerez cellars were founded by British families.
Some famous styles include:
- Amontillado
- Fino
- Oloroso
- Pale Cream
- Cream Sherry
- East India Sherry
- Brown Sherry
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sherry is a town located in Wood County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 809.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 91.6 km² (35.4 mi²). 91.3 km² (35.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.34% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 809 people, 270 households, and 217 families residing in the town. The population density is 8.9/km² (22.9/mi²). There are 280 housing units at an average density of 3.1/km² (7.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.79% White, 0.00% African American, 0.25% Native American, 1.36% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.49% from other races, and 1.11% from two or more races. 0.99% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 270 households out of which 44.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.7% are married couples living together, 5.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 19.3% are non-families. 14.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.00 and the average family size is 3.36. In the town the population is spread out with 30.8% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 103.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 105.9 males. The median income for a household in the town is $52,143, and the median income for a family is $53,036. Males have a median income of $33,250 versus $25,341 for females. The per capita income for the town is $17,728. 2.3% of the population and 1.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 1.9% are under the age of 18 and 2.6% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sherry, Wisconsin."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sherry |
| English words defined with "sherry": Amontillado ♦ claret cup ♦ decant, demiglace, demi-glaze, disconcertingly ♦ Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera ♦ Manzanilla ♦ Newburg sauce ♦ pour, pour out ♦ sack, Sherris, Sherry cobbler, Steel wine ♦ White wine, Wine of opium ♦ Xeres. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sherry": Bristol Milk ♦ flor yeasts ♦ Refreshments ♦ sherry topaz, Stimulants of Great Men ♦ TO SHERRY. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sherry": Sherris. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sherry" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (sherry), Faeroese (sherry), Finnish (sherry), French (sherry), German (sack, sherry), Hungarian (sherry), Italian (sherry), Swedish (sherry), Turkish (sherry). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Dad, do you think we'll ever see Sherry Bobbins again (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Sherry, Marya (Dracula's Daughter; writing credit: Bram Stoker; David O. Selznick) Hi, this is Sherry Tinsdale (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) There is no year for sherry, 007. (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sherry querida (1967) Madame Sherry (1917) | |
Song Titles | Oh Sherry (performing artist: Steve Perry) Sherry (performing artist: The Four Seasons) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sherry Magee. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Uncorking old sherry / Js. Gillrlay, inv. & fecit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sherry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.77% of the time. "Sherry" is used about 536 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.77% | 524 | 11,646 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.05% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 536 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sherry" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sherry | First name Female | 178,000 | 119 |
| Sherry | Last name | 3,000 | 4,620 |
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| "Sherry" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "darling". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Sherry." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Cher | Female | English | Cherie |
| Cherette | Female | English | Cherie |
| Cheri | Female | English | Cherie |
| Cherie | Female | English | N/A |
| Cherilyn | Female | English | Cherie |
| Cherry | Female | English | Cherie |
| Cheryl | Female | English | Cherie |
| Sheree | Female | English | Cherie |
| Sheri | Female | English | Cherie |
| Sherie | Female | English | Cherie |
| Sherri | Female | English | Cherie |
| Sherrie | Female | English | Cherie |
| Sherry | Female | English | Cherie |
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| Country | Name |
| Ireland | Sherry FitzGerald Group PLC |
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Expression using "sherry": sherry cobbler. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sherry": sherry-cobbler, sherry-coloured, sherry-cooking, sherry-party, sherry-sipping. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sherry | 282 | gideons sherry | 14 |
sherry stringfield | 131 | bloom sherry | 13 |
lehman sherry | 77 | argov sherry | 11 |
sherry jackson | 43 | sherry lee | 11 |
paul sherry | 41 | bob sherry show | 11 |
bob sherry | 35 | easter jeff sherry | 11 |
becker sherry | 33 | austin sherry | 11 |
sherry smith | 32 | dry sherry | 10 |
by equality gender in sherry toronto | 31 | sherry toilet | 10 |
sherry arnett | 29 | sherry lewis | 10 |
lansing sherry | 28 | sherry vinegar | 10 |
fitzgerald sherry | 27 | bernal sherry | 9 |
sherry lehmann | 26 | sherry glasses | 9 |
potter sherry | 26 | cooking sherry | 9 |
paul rv sherry | 23 | sherry rogers | 9 |
sherry wine | 19 | goggins sherry | 9 |
sherry miller | 15 | sherry netherland hotel | 9 |
sherry netherland | 14 | sherry kline | 8 |
goggin sherry | 14 | bang first gang her sherry | 8 |
sherry stringfield nude | 14 | lehmann.com sherry | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "sherry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | xeres, sjerrie. (various references) | |
Albanian | sheri. (various references) | |
Arabic | خمرة (highball, plonk, wet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шери. (various references) | |
Catalan | xerès. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雪利'. (various references) | |
Czech | šery. (various references) | |
Danish | sherry. (various references) | |
Dutch | sherry, Xeres. (various references) | |
Esperanto | "ereon. (various references) | |
Faeroese | sherry. (various references) | |
Farsi | شراب شیرین یاتلخ اسپانیولی . (various references) | |
Finnish | sherry. (various references) | |
French | sherry, xéres, vin de Xérès. (various references) | |
German | sherry (sack). (various references) | |
Greek | σέρυ, ξανθόσ ισπανικόσ οίνοσ, τσέρυ, οίνος του Ξερές. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sherry, xeresi bor, cherry. (various references) | |
Italian | sherry, vino di Xeres, liquame (dirtiness, liquid manure, matter, pus, sewage), effluente (effluent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | シェリー' (shell, shell-script, shelter, sheriff, Sherpa), シェニール糸 (chef, chenille, chenille yarn, shepherd, shepherd's check). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | シェリーしゅ, シェリー . (various references) | |
Korean | 셰리. (various references) | |
Manx | sherrish. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erryshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | xerez, vinho espanhol de xerez, vinho de Xerês. (various references) | |
Romanian | vin de xeres. (various references) | |
Russian | херес (sherries). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šeri. (various references) | |
Spanish | jerez (Jerez). (various references) | |
Swedish | sherry. (various references) | |
Turkish | sherry, tatlı ispanyol şarabı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | херес (duke, xeres). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rượu côctay seri (sherry-cobbler). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | vino de Xeres. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Sherry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ashbery, herry, Scherr, shary, sheary, sher, sheri, sherly, Sherr, sherrif, sheryl, Shewry, shher, shiry, shry, smery, spery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sherry" (pronounced she"rē) |
| 3 | -e" r ē | airy, Barre, Berry, Bury, Canary, cherry, Clary, dairy, Derry, Jerry, Kerry, eyrie, fairy, ferry, Glengarry, hairy, Harry, marry, merry, nary, Parry, Perry, prairie, remarry, scary, skerry, Tarry, Terry, unwary, vary, very, wary, wherry. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-r-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: herry, serry, shyer. | |
-2 letters: errs, hers, resh, ryes. | |
-3 letters: err, ers, her, hes, hey, res, rye, ser, she, shy, yeh, yes. | |
-4 letters: eh, er, es, he, re, sh, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-r-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: rhymers. | |
+2 letters: herstory, orphreys. | |
+3 letters: erythrism, erythrons, hydrosere, pyorrheas, rhymester, shadberry, shrubbery. | |
+4 letters: erythrisms, erythrites, erythrosin, hydroseres, porphyries, prehistory, pyrethrins, pyrethrums, rehydrates, rhymesters, serigraphy, sheepberry. | |
+5 letters: cherrystone, chrysoberyl, chrysoprase, dehydrators, erythremias, erythrismal, erythristic, erythrosine, erythrosins, granophyres, heterospory, horseplayer, hybridizers, hydrometers, hydropowers, hydrosphere, hygrometers, hypermeters, pyrethroids, pyrrhotites, squirearchy. | |
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