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apple pie

/ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/

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Australia/ˌæp.əlˈpɑɪ/

apple pie noun: a pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.

apple pie: a pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples
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Noun

apple pie (countable and uncountable, plural apple pies)

  1. A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.
    • The enticing, homey scent of apple pie wafted into the hallway as she beckoned them into her lair.2011 April 12, Beth Kendrick, chapter 29, in The Bake-Off, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN
  2. (figuratively) Anything positive that is quintessentially American.
    • […] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of.1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10
    • Hanks has often been called our generation's answer to James Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there. With his shared "gee shucks" sweetness and apple pie Americanness, Stewart also appeared in many war films and family dramas.2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC
  3. (UK, dialectal) Any of various willowherbs.

Verb

apple pie (third-person singular simple present apple pies, present participle apple pieing, simple past and past participle apple pied)

  1. (transitive) Of a bed, to make an apple-pie bed.
    Synonyms:
    shortsheet

apple pie meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Malay and Persian

apple pie in Tamil

ஆப்பிள் பணியாரம்

apple pie in Arabic

pie with apple filling
فطيرَة التفاح

apple pie in Malay

pie with apple filling
pai epal

apple pie in Persian

pie with apple filling
پای سیب pây-e sib

Synonyms of apple pie

Forms of apple pie

Noun
pluralapple pies
alternative formapple-pie
Verb
third-person singular presentapple pies
present participleapple pieing
past participleapple pied
pastapple pied

Words formed from apple pie

Words that rhyme with apple pie

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Questions about apple pie

What does apple pie mean?
Apple pie means a pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.
What is apple pie in Tamil?
Apple pie in Tamil is ஆப்பிள் பணியாரம். See Apple pie meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is apple pie?
Apple pie can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce apple pie?
Apple pie is pronounced /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of apple pie?
The plural of apple pie is apple pies.

Words near apple pie in the dictionary

  1. apple of Sodom
  2. apple of someone's eye
  3. apple of the eye
  4. apple pear
  5. apple pears
  6. apple pie
  7. apple pied
  8. apple pieing
  9. apple pies
  10. apple pip
  11. apple pips

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