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 apple6.
bad apple
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Word origin
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
Idioms:
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Word origin
ME appel < OE æppel, fruit, apple (also, eyeball, anything round); akin to OIr aball (Welsh afall), apple tree
Word Frequency
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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Word origin
[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 hard cross-grained reddish wood of this tree
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the open-grained wood of any of numerous coniferous trees, such as pine and cedar, as distinguished from that of a dicotyledonous tree
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apple
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
- 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: แอปเปิ้ล
- Turkish: elma
- Ukrainian: яблуко
- Vietnamese: quả táo
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