From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse, both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον, from κερασός ("bird cherry"), and ultimately possibly of ine-ana - origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word).

• (British, America) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/

cherry (plural cherries)

1. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
3. The wood of a cherry tree.
4. Cherry red.
5. The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
6. (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
7. (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
   • 2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching:

     Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v_1 \in T_1…

   • 2005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology:

     Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2…

8. (cricket, slang) A cricket ball.
   • 2000, Woorkheri Raman, Indians adopt safety first tactics ↗, ESPNcricinfo:

     The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.

   • 2007, Ben Dirs, England v West Indies 1st Test‎, BBC:

     Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.

9. A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.

   Synonyms: cherrytop

10. The burning tip of a cigarette.
    • 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC ↗:

      I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.

• French: cerise, (sour cherry) griotte
• German: Kirsche
• Italian: ciliegia
• Portuguese: cereja
• Russian: (sweet cherry) чере́шня
• Spanish: cereza, guinda

• French: cerisier
• German: Kirschbaum, Kirschenbaum
• Italian: ciliegio
• Portuguese: cerejeira
• Russian: ви́шня
• Spanish: cerezo Prunus avium, Prunus cerasus guindo

• German: Kirschenholz
• Italian: ciliegio
• Portuguese: cerejeira
• Russian: ви́шня

• Italian: ciliegia
• Portuguese: cereja
• Russian: вишнёвый
• Spanish: guinda, cereza

• French: cerise
• Portuguese: cabaço
• Russian: це́лка

cherry (comparative cherrier, superlative cherriest)

1. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
2. Of a bright red colour; cherry red.

    

3. (informal, often, of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.

• cerise

• French: goût cerise
• Russian: вишнёвый

• Portuguese: cereja
• Russian: вишнёвый

1. A female given name, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name.
   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC ↗:

     'As you knows Mrs Chuzzlewit, you knows, p’raps, what her chris’en name is?' Mrs Gamp observed.
     'Charity,' said Bailey.
     'That it ain’t!' cried Mrs Gamp.
     'Cherry, then,' said Bailey. 'Cherry's short for it. It’s all the same.'

2. Surname.
3. A number of places in USA:
   1. A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona.
   2. A village in Bureau County, Illinois.
   3. A twp/and/unincorporated community therein, in Saint Louis County.
   4. Two townships in Pennsylvania, in Butler County and Sullivan County.
   5. An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
   6. An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.

cherry (plural cherries)

1. (soccer) someone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.