cherry

1. 1.

   wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

   Broaderwood
2. 2.

   any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood

   Synonymscherry tree

   Broaderfruit tree

   Narrowerwild cherrysweet cherrycapulinsour cherryCatalina cherryflowering cherrychokecherry

   Part ofPrunus
3. 3.

   a red fruit with a single hard stone

   Broaderedible fruitdrupe

   Narrowersweet cherrycapulinsour cherry
4. 4.

   a red the color of ripe cherries

   Synonymscerisecherry red

   Broaderred

1. 1.

   of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

   Synonymsredreddishruddyblood-redcarminecerisecherry-redcrimsonrubyruby-redscarlet

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of cherry

plural

cherries·

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.

Questions about cherry

What does cherry mean?

cherry means "wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cherry?

cherry has 2 syllables: cher-ry. The stress falls on "cher". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɛɹi/.

What is another word for cherry?

Close synonyms include cherry tree, cerise, cherry red, red, reddish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cherry a common word?

cherry is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.