Definition of 'apple'
Word forms: plural apples
1. variable noun
An apple is a round fruit with smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh.
2. See also Adam's apple, Big Apple, crab apple
3.
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apple in British English
noun
1.
a rosaceous tree, Malus sieversii, native to Central Asia but widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties, having pink or white fragrant flowers and firm rounded edible fruits
See also crab apple3.
the wood of this tree
4.
any of several unrelated trees that have fruits similar to the apple, such as the custard apple, sugar apple, and May apple
See also love apple, oak apple, thorn apple5. See apple of one's eye
6. See bad apple
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Old English æppel; related to Old Saxon appel, Old Norse apall, Old High German apfulWord Frequency
apple in American English
noun
2.
any of the trees (genus Malus) of the rose family bearing this fruit, widely distributed in temperate regions
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Word origin
ME appel < OE æppel, fruit, apple (also, eyeball, anything round); akin to OIr aball (Welsh afall), apple tree
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apple in American English
(ˈæpəl)
noun
1.
the usually round, red or greenish-yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family
2.
the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions
4.
any of these trees
5.
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[bef. 900; ME appel, OE æppel; c. OFris, D appel, OS apl, appul, OHG apful (G Apfel), Crimean Goth apel ‹ Gmc *aplu (akin to ON epli ‹ *apljan); OIr ubull (neut.), Welsh afal, Breton aval ‹ pre-Celtic *ǫblu; Lith óbuolas, -ỹs, Latvian âbuol(i)s (with reshaped suffix), OPruss woble, perh. Thracian (din)upla, (sin)upyla wild pumpkin, OCS (j)ablŭko (repr. *ablŭ-ko, neut.) ‹ Balto-Slavic *āblu-. Cf. avalon]Examples of 'apple' in a sentence
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the resinous wood of any of several trees, used for torches and candle substitutes
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any tree of the salicaceous genus Populus, of N temperate regions, having triangular leaves, flowers borne in catkins, and light soft wood
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British English: apple
/ˈæpl/ NOUN
An apple is a round fruit with a smooth skin and firm white flesh.
I want an apple.
- American English: apple /ˈæpəl/
- Arabic: تَفَّاحَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: maçã
- Chinese: 苹果
- Croatian: jabuka
- Czech: jablko
- Danish: æble
- Dutch: appel vrucht
- European Spanish: manzana
- Finnish: omena
- French: pomme
- German: Apfel
- Greek: μήλο
- Italian: mela
- Japanese: リンゴ
- Korean: 사과
- Norwegian: eple
- Polish: jabłko
- European Portuguese: maçã
- Romanian: măr
- Russian: яблоко
- Latin American Spanish: manzana fruta
- Swedish: äpple
- Thai: ผลแอปเปิ้ล
- Turkish: elma
- Ukrainian: яблуко
- Vietnamese: quả táo
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