Meaning

17 senses
  1. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

    The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.

    fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

  2. Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1).

    custard apple rose apple thorn apple

  3. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.

  4. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.

    (informal)The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling.

  5. The surface of revolution of a circular arc of an angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc's two endpoints.

  6. In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.

  7. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

    According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit.

  8. (Internet, humorous)An imaginary diminutive unit of height.

    He's only three apples tall

  9. A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.

    native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

  10. Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).

  11. A fruit of any kind.

  12. (broadly, often, slang)A person.

Examples

2019 sentences
  1. The apple fell from the tree.

    Яблуко впало з дерева.

    ruЯблоко упало с дерева.

    deDer Apfel ist vom Baum gefallen.

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  2. An apple fell off the tree.

    З яблуні впало яблуко.

    ruС дерева упало яблоко.

    deEin Apfel fiel vom Baum.

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  3. She cut the apple in half.

    Вона розрізала яблука навпіл.

    ruОна разрезала яблоко пополам.

    deSie schnitt den Apfel in der Mitte durch.

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  4. Tom gave an apple to Mary.

    Том дав Мері яблуко.

    ruТом дал Мэри яблоко.

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  5. Tom gave this apple to me.

    Том дав мені це яблуко.

    ruТом дал мне это яблоко.

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Translations

9 languages
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Русский
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fruit of Malus domestica:
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fruit of Malus domestica:

Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English appel (“Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any

The noun is derived from Middle English appel (“Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any type of fruit, nut, or tuber; tree bearing fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; (Christianity) forbidden fruit in Eden”), from Old English æppel (“apple; any type of fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; eyeball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”).

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Forms

plural: apples
Singularapple
Pluralapples

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

163 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • an an apple
  • apple pie
  • an apple pie
  • how many apples
  • apple trees
  • peeled the apple
  • eat the apple
  • these apples are
  • many apples
  • apples are rotten
  • some apples
  • an apple tree

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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