hard cider

1. 1.

   alcoholic drink from fermented cider; `cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usages for the fermented beverage

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Questions about hard cider

What does hard cider mean?

hard cider means "alcoholic drink from fermented cider; `cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usages for the fermented beverage".

Is hard cider a common word?

hard cider is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.