fruit
/fɹuːt/
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British/fɹʉwt/
fruit noun: a product of fertilization in a plant, specifically.
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Noun (1)
fruit (countable and uncountable, plural fruits)
- A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
- [A]fter the flower is past commeth the fruit in long pods, every seede bunching out like the pods of Orobus and as bigge almost as the smaller Pease.1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum botanicum: the Theater of Plants; or, An Herball of a Large Extent, London, page 1063
- The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
- The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
- Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
- It’s true that agriculture at the time was organic, food was locally produced and there were no ultraprocessed foods. But fresh fruits and vegetables were in short supply because they were difficult to ship and because growing seasons were so short.2025 January 13, Gina Kolata, “Have Americans Ever Really Been Healthy?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025
- An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- He spent his retirement enjoying the fruits of his labour.
- Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
- fresh-squeezed fruit juice
- a fruit salad
- A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
- "Moishe just checked in," he said. "He's a panhandler and a fruit. A disgrace to the Jewish race."1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 66
- I'm not talking to this twisted fruit anymore!1984, This is Spinal Tap, spoken by Ian Faith (Tony Hendra)
- Synonyms:
- batty boy, batty man, botter, bumboy, bum chum, bumder, bummer, butt rider, chi chi man, confirmed bachelor
- An effeminate man.
- Offspring from a sexual union.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- fruit of one's loins
- A crazy person.
Verb
fruit (third-person singular simple present fruits, present participle fruiting, simple past and past participle fruited)
- To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
- It may be said, however, that the percentage of green apples among the Fameuse seedlings is much less than among the others as out of 33 Fameuse seedlings which had fruited up to this year, none was green and we recollect but one light coloured Fameuse seedling fruiting this year.1910, Canada Experimental Farms Service, Report of the Dominion Experimental Farms
- For example, chanterelles and russulas can start fruiting in early to mid summer given sufficient moisture, but other species, such as matsutake, rarely fruit until temperatures cool in the autumn, even if moisture is available earlier.1998, Randy Molina, David Pilz, Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild Mushroom Harvests, →ISBN, page 10
Noun (2) capitalized: FRUIT
FRUIT (uncountable)
- Acronym of false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time.
Proper noun capitalized: Fruit
Fruit (plural Fruits)
- A surname.
fruit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fruit in Hindi
- part of plant
- फल phal, मेवा mevā
- food
- फल phal, मेवा mevā
- figuratively: positive end result or reward of labour or effort
- फल phal
- figuratively: child of a marriage
- फल phal
fruit in Tamil
- part of plant
- பழம் paḻam, கனி kaṉi
fruit in Marathi
- part of plant
- फळ phaḷ
fruit in Urdu
- part of plant
- پَھل phal, ثَمَر samar, میوَہ meva
- food
- پَھل phal, میوَہ meva
More languagesFewer languages
- fruit in Bengali
- ফল phol
- fruit in Telugu
- పండు paṇḍu, ఫలము phalamu, ఫలించు phaliñcu
- fruit in Malayalam
- പഴം paḻaṁ, ഫലം phalaṁ, കായ kāya, കായ്ക്കുക kāykkuka
- fruit in Kannada
- ಫಲ phala, ಹಣ್ಣು haṇṇu, ಕಾಯಿ kāyi
- fruit in Punjabi
- ਫਲ phal, پھل pnb
- fruit in Gujarati
- ફળ phaḷ
- fruit in Odia
- ଫଳ phaḷa
- fruit in Sanskrit
- फल phala
- fruit in Sinhala
- එල ela, පලතුරු palaturu
- fruit in Assamese
- ফল phol
- fruit in Nepali
- फल phal
- fruit in Pashto
- مېوه mewá
- fruit in Tagalog
- bunga
- fruit in Arabic
- ثَمَرَة ṯamara, فَاكِهَة fākiha, شَاذّ جِنْسِيًّا šāḏḏ jinsiyyan, أَثْمَرَ ʔaṯmara
- fruit in Malay
- buah
- fruit in Indonesian
- buah
- fruit in Persian
- میوَه mēwa, ثَمَر samar, میوِه mive, بار bâr
- fruit in Thai
- ลูก lûuk, ผล pǒn, ผลไม้ pǒn-lá-máai, ได้ผลดี
- fruit in Vietnamese
- quả, trái, trái cây
- fruit in Myanmar
- အသီး a.si:, သစ်သီး sacsi:
- Sindhi
- ميوو meoo
- Kashmiri
- مؠوٕ myavụ, پَھل pahl
- Dzongkha
- ཤིང་ཏོག, ཤིང་འབྲས
Examples of fruit in a sentence
- an artificial fruit flavor
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 3:10:
- The fruits of this education became visible.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify...
- It is incontestably the case that future generations enjoyed the extraordinary fruits of the Industrial Revolution’s “great enrichment”.2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times:
- Aww, but he's so cute! / He's a fruit… Oh my fucking god!1997, Daniel Clowes, “Garage Sale”, in Ghost World, Jonathan Cape, published 2000, →ISBN, page 15:
Synonyms of fruit
- batty boy
- batty man
- botter
- bumboy
- bum chum
- bummer
- butt rider
- chi chi man
- confirmed bachelor
- cock gobbler
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of fruit
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fruits |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fruits |
| present participle | fruiting |
| past participle | fruited |
| past | fruited |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Fruits |
Origin of fruit
From Middle English fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin fruitus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), frūctus and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Partially displaced native Old English wæstm, ofett and æppel (whence modern ovest and apple). Compare Dutch vrucht, German Frucht, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish frukt, Danish frugt. In the derogatory senses of “crazy person” and “homosexual or effeminate man”, possibly a shortening of fruitcake, or of independent origin, compare Fruit (slang).
* As a German surname, Americanized from Fruth, and also Frucht. * As a French and West Flemish surname, from the noun fruit. Sometimes also shortened from the personal name Godefrait, a French form of Godfrey.
Words formed from fruit
- accessory fruit
- aggregate fruit
- angry fruit salad
- atoll fruit dove
- bag of fruit
- beautiful fruit dove
- blue sausage fruit
- brandy fruit
- breadfruit
- butter fruit
- by their fruits you will know them
- cackle fruit
- candied fruit
- canefruit
- catapult fruit
- chain fruit
- citrus fruit
- collective fruit
- compound fruit
- cream-fruit
- crotch fruit
- desert fruit cake
- doum fruit
- dried fruit
- drift fruit
- egg fruit
- eggfruit
- false fruit
- firstfruit
- fogfruit
- football fruit
- forbidden fruit is the sweetest
- frankenfruit
- fruital
- fruit and flowers
- fruit basket hat
- fruit bat
- fruit-bearing
- fruitbody
- fruit borer
- fruit bouquet
- fruit brandy
- fruit-cake
- fruit cake
- fruitcrop
- fruitcrow
- fruit crush
- fruit cup
- fruit curd
- fruit dot
- fruit dove
- fruit-dove
- fruit drop
- fruiteater
- fruit-eater
- fruitery
- fruit fall
- fruitfest
- fruitflesh
- fruit fly
Phrases with fruit
- fruit up
- in fruit
- fog fruit
- fruit hat
- fruit ice
- fruit jar
- fruit tea
- key fruit
- old fruit
- sun fruit
- top fruit
- bear fruit
123 more phrasesFewer phrases
- bore fruit
- fruit bats
- fruit body
- fruit bowl
- fruit cups
- fruit dots
- fruit hats
- fruit ices
- fruit loop
- fruit moon
- fruit salt
- fruit shop
- fruit teas
- fruit tree
- fruit wall
- fruit wart
- fruit wine
- hand fruit
- jack fruit
- kiwi fruit
- milk fruit
- monk fruit
- soft fruit
- star fruit
- ugli fruit
- uniq fruit
- bears fruit
- borne fruit
- fruit bowls
- fruit cakes
- fruit doves
- fruit drops
- fruit falls
- fruit flies
- fruit juice
- fruit loops
- fruit moons
- fruit punch
- fruit salad
- fruit salts
- fruit shops
- fruit sugar
- fruit trees
- fruit walls
- fruit wines
- glacé fruit
- Irish fruit
- snake fruit
- spore fruit
- stone fruit
- dragon fruit
- fruit bodies
- fruit borers
- fruit juices
- fruit pigeon
- fruit rollup
- fruit salads
- monkey fruit
- oyster fruit
- pickle fruit
- purple fruit
- sharon fruit
- simple fruit
- Zabala fruit
- bags of fruit
- bearing fruit
- fruit crushes
- fruit leather
- fruit machine
- fruit pigeons
- fruit punches
- fruit rollups
- miracle fruit
- passion fruit
- saguaro fruit
- strange fruit
- fruit bouquets
- fruit brandies
- fruit cocktail
- fruit leathers
- fruit machines
- fruit smoothie
- multiple fruit
- tropical fruit
- forbidden fruit
- fruit cocktails
- fruit smoothies
- fruit vegetable
- olive fruit fly
- plum fruit moth
- swift fruit bat
- fruit of the sea
- fruit vegetables
- miraculous fruit
- peach fruit moth
- swift fruit bats
- atoll fruit doves
- fruit basket hats
- golden fruit dove
- low hanging fruit
- low-hanging fruit
- olive fruit flies
- peach fruit moths
- angry fruit salads
- crystallized fruit
- desert fruit cakes
- fruit of the union
- golden fruit doves
- green fruit beetle
- high-hanging fruit
- green fruit beetles
- Oriental fruit moth
- fruit ninja champion
- fruit of one's loins
- Oriental fruit moths
- beautiful fruit doves
- fruit ninja champions
- nutty as a fruit cake
- Mediterranean fruit fly
- Mediterranean fruit flies
- fruit of the poisonous tree
- the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest
- time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
Words that rhyme with fruit
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
- cheroot
Questions about fruit
- What does fruit mean?
- Fruit means a product of fertilization in a plant, specifically.
- What is fruit in Hindi?
- Fruit in Hindi is फल (phal), मेवा (mevā), फलित (phalit). See Fruit meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fruit in a sentence?
- an artificial fruit flavor
- What part of speech is fruit?
- Fruit can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce fruit?
- Fruit is pronounced /fɹuːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fruit?
- The plural of fruit is fruits.
Words near fruit in the dictionary
Source and license
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