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Cherry

Food And Drink
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A small red fruit associated with sweetness, youth, and summer ripeness. It can also suggest temptation, blood, or fleeting beauty.

Detailed Definition
Cherry is rich in poetic associations because of its vivid color, glossy skin, and brief season. A cherry tree in blossom can represent transience, while its fruit may evoke desire, innocence, or the sudden intensity of pleasure. Poets often use cherries to contrast abundance with fragility: they stain fingers, split easily, and vanish quickly from a bowl. Their pits can introduce darker notes of hardness, secrecy, or what remains after sweetness has passed.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cherry is a traditional poetic image of ripeness, desire, and brief summer pleasure; A poet might write, “Cherries darkened on the branch until the birds claimed them”; The cherry stone can introduce hardness beneath sweetness; “He kept the cherry pit beneath his tongue, a small bitter secret”; “Cherry blossoms fell like snow” uses the tree’s flowers to contrast beauty with transience
Additional Notes
Cherry can signify sweetness and youthful beauty, while its red juice also permits associations with temptation, blood, or transience.
Also Known As
Sweet Cherry
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