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Cider

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 drink made from fermented apple juice. It evokes orchards, autumn, rural festivity, and intoxication.

Detailed Definition
Cider connects the fruiting orchard to the communal pleasures of pressing, brewing, and drinking. In pastoral poetry, it can mark the richness of autumn and the local identity of a farming region. Its golden color and sharp taste give poets sensory materials for describing harvest light, ripeness, and ferment. Yet cider may also signal excess, revelry, or the uneasy boundary between wholesome labor and drunken escape.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cider can evoke autumn through apples, orchards, pressing, and harvest gatherings; Robert Frost’s orchard poems show how apples can carry both rural realism and symbolic weight, and cider can extend that imagery; A poet might write, “Cider steamed in cups while the first frost silvered the gate,” joining warmth and cold in one scene; Fermented cider can also symbolize time, transformation, or the mature sweetness of experience
Additional Notes
Cider brings orchard imagery, apple harvests, autumn weather, village celebration, and mild drunkenness into a poem.
Also Known As
Apple Cider Hard Cider Cyder
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