Meaning

9 senses

  1. (countable, usually)A yellowish citrus fruit.

    Zitrone

    лимо́нlimón

    лимо́нlymón, цитри́наcytrýna

  2. (countable, usually)A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.

    Zitronenbaum, Zitrone

    лимо́нlimón

  3. (countable, usually)A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.

  4. (rare, uncountable, usually)Lemon juice.

  5. (countable, usually)A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).

  6. (countable, slang, usually)A defective or inadequate item or individual.

    He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.

    Gurke, Krücke

    фуфло́fufló

  7. (Cockney, countable, slang, usually)Favor.

    A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.

  8. (countable, slang, usually)A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.

  9. (countable, usually)The surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle less than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc’s two endpoints.

More definitions
  • an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory
  • a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons
  • yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
  • a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit

Examples

229 sentences

  1. I like lemon in my tea.

    Я люблю чай із лимоном. — deniko

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  2. I like oranges, but I like lemons more.

    Я полюбляю апельсини, але лимони я полюбляю більше. — deniko

    ruЯ люблю апельсины, но лимоны люблю ещё больше. — Wezel

    deIch mag Orangen, aber Zitronen mag ich noch mehr. — raggione

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  3. Lemons and limes are acidic fruits.

    Лимон та лайм - кислі фрукти. — aandrusiak

    ruЛимон и лайм - кислые фрукты. — marafon

    deZitronen und Limonen sind saure Früchte. — MUIRIEL

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  4. I never drink tea with lemon.

    Я ніколи не п'ю чай із лимоном. — deniko

    ruЯ никогда не пью чай с лимоном. — saiko

    deIch trinke niemals Tee mit Zitrone. — Esperantostern

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  5. A tea with lemon, please.

    Чай з лимоном, будьте ласкаві. — Ahha

    ruЧай с лимоном, пожалуйста. — marafon

    deEinen Tee mit Zitrone, bitte. — MUIRIEL

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
citrus fruit:
Русский
By meaning 2
citrus fruit:
defective item:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
colour/color:
citrus fruit:
tree:
defective item:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُو

Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Classical Persian لِیمُون (līmūn), a variant of Classical Persian لِیمُو (līmū, līmō), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Doublet of lime.

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Forms

plural: lemons
Singularlemon
Plurallemons

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
defective item:bombB1
erotic fanfiction:smutficPWP
lemon yellow
Close in meaning

Word family

65 related words
Relatedlimoneneadverse selectionlemony
DerivedlemonadeA2bush lemonlemandarinlemonaiselemonallemon antlemonarylemon aspenlemon balmlemon barlemon basillemon-bellied flycatcherlemon-bellied flyrobinlemon cheeselemon chickenlemon chiffonlemon cloverlemon cucumberlemon curdlemon droplemon eucalyptuslemonfishlemon geraniumlemongrass

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
legumeleisureA2leisurelyB2lemonadeA2lemurlendA2
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