noun
beer
BEER
noun
1
An alcoholic drink made by fermenting malted grain, usually flavored with hops.
"They shared a round of beer after the game."
"This brewery makes a really hoppy beer."
2
A single glass, bottle, or can of beer.
"Can I get you a beer?"
How to Use Beer
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe common alcoholic drink brewed from grain, or a single serving of it.
Common pairings
crack open a beer
draft beer
ice-cold beer
Word Forms
beered past tense, beers plural, beers plural, beers singular
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Etymology
From Old English beor, from a Proto-Germanic root, though some scholars trace a link to Vulgar Latin biber ("a drink"), from Latin bibere ("to drink").