beer

Meanings

Noun

• An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
• A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
• A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
• A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
• A variety of the above beverages.
• One who is or exists.

Verb

• To give beer to (someone)

Origin

• From Middle English bere, from Old English bēor, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (putatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeusóm), meaning 'brewer's yeast.
• Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bjoor, West Frisian bier, German Low German Beer, Dutch bier, German Bier, Icelandic bjór.
• From Middle English beere, equivalent to be + -er.