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say it: chir
cheer is a verb and noun meaning "give encouragement to". It is pronounced /ˈtʃɪɹ/ — chir. It carries 7 recorded senses.
give encouragement to
show approval or good wishes by shouting
“everybody cheered the birthday boy”
cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful
“She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee”
the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
“flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cheer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.