grape
/ɡɹeɪp/
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grape noun: a small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera. Also the clipping of grapeshot.
Noun (1)
grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)
- A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.
- Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.
- Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
- wild grape covering the back slope
- Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible.
- sea grape; tail grape
- A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
- For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.
- A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
- A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
- I was horrified to see three grapes standing by the aircraft with the hose still connected.1998, Approach, volume 43, number 10, page 10
- A person's head.
Adjective
grape (comparative more grape, superlative most grape)
Verb (1)
grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)
- To pick grapes.
- I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying.1973, Nancy Safford, Time's Island; Portraits of the Vineyard, page 35
- Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
- Some are called ticked; some have the milk fever; some have worm-'ith-tail ; some are graped ; others are broken-up old cows.1856, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Reports from Committees, page 138
- The lungs were in a bad condition, hard in places, and lumpy and badly graped.1891, Public Health - Volume 4, page 249
- To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
- Over the huge abraded rind, Crow-countries graped with dung, we go, Past gullies that no longer flow And wells that nobody can find, Lashed by the screaming of the crow, Stabbed by the needles of the mind.1932, Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey
- Some small graped pisolitic textures are primary but not important.1991, Desheng Li, Tectonic types of oil and gas basins in China, page 162
- To grope.
- Lang, lang I sought and graped for my pack, Till night and hunger forced me to come back.1780, Alexander Wilson, A Pedlar's Story
- Aw graped my way out i' the dark, An' down the stairs aw scrafflel'd1836, William Stephenson Jr, Punch and Toby
- To envy (from sour grapes).
Noun (2)
grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)
Verb (2)
grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)
Also used as
grape is also the clipping of grapeshot.
grape meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
grape in Hindi
- fruit
- अंगूर aṅgūr, दाख dākh, द्राक्षा drākṣā
grape in Tamil
- fruit
- திராட்சை tirāṭcai
grape in Marathi
- fruit
- द्राक्ष drākṣa
grape in Urdu
- fruit
- داکھ dākh, انگور aṅgūr
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- grape in Bengali
- আঙ্গুর aṅgur, আঙুর aṅur, দ্রাক্ষা drakkha
- grape in Telugu
- ద్రాక్ష drākṣa
- grape in Malayalam
- മുന്തിരി muntiri
- grape in Kannada
- ದ್ರಾಕ್ಷಿ drākṣi
- grape in Punjabi
- ਅੰਗੂਰ aṅgūr, ਦਾਖ dākh
- grape in Gujarati
- દરાખ darākh, દ્રાક્ષ drākṣ, અંગૂર aṅgūr
- grape in Odia
- ଅଙ୍ଗୁର aṅgura
- grape in Sanskrit
- द्राक्षा drākṣā
- grape in Assamese
- আঙুৰ aṅur, লতা-পনীয়ল lota-ponil, দাক্ষা dakha
- grape in Pashto
- انګور angūr
- grape in Tagalog
- ubas
- grape in Arabic
- عِنَب ʕinab
- grape in Malay
- anggur
- grape in Indonesian
- anggur, buah anggur
- grape in Persian
- انگور angur
- grape in Thai
- องุ่น à-ngùn
- grape in Vietnamese
- màu nho
- grape in Myanmar
- စပျစ်သီး ca.pyacsi:
- Sindhi
- اَنگوُرُ angūru
- Kashmiri
- دَچھ dach
Examples of grape in a sentence
- Do I understand that the carcases of the graped cows, to which you refer, were used for food ?1898, Great Britain Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Administrative...
- 'Till in a declamation mist, His argument he tint it; He gapéd for't, he graped for't, He fand it was awa, man;1881, Robert Burns, The Two Lawyers, page 280:
Synonyms of grape
Forms of grape
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | grapes |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more grape |
| superlative | most grape |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | grapes |
| present participle | graping |
| past participle | graped |
| past | graped |
Origin of grape
Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.
From rape, influenced by grape.
Words formed from grape
- crangrape
- dessert grape
- grape cell
- grapeful
- grape jelly
- grape juice
- grape kernel
- grapeless
- grapelet
- grapelike
- grape-louse
- graperita
- grapery
- grapeseed
- grapeshot
- grapeskin
- grape smuggler
- grape smugglers
- grapes of wrath
- grape-stone
- grapestone
- grape sugar
- grape therapy
- grapetini
- grape tomato
- grapevine
- grape wine
- grapewise
- grapey
- grapy
- mare's teat grape
- miller's grape
- Niagara grape
- peel me a grape
- red grape
- sour grapes
- spoiled grape juice
- squeeze-grape
- table grape
- tablegrape
- white grape
- winegrape
- wine grape
Phrases with grape
- cat grape
- fox grape
- grape ivy
- sea grape
- coon grape
- grape fern
- grape vine
- plum grape
- rock grape
- sand grape
- tail grape
- frost grape
25 more phrasesFewer phrases
- grape cells
- grape ferns
- grape vines
- grape wines
- grape cactus
- grape juices
- Oregon grape
- possum grape
- summer grape
- winter grape
- catbird grape
- Concord grape
- grape kernels
- Mission grape
- seaside grape
- grape hyacinth
- grape tomatoes
- mangrove grape
- Missouri grape
- mountain grape
- grape hyacinths
- grape neutral spirit
- neutral grape spirit
- grape neutral spirits
- neutral grape spirits
Words that rhyme with grape
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Questions about grape
- What does grape mean?
- Grape means a small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.
- What is grape in Hindi?
- Grape in Hindi is अंगूर (aṅgūr), दाख (dākh), द्राक्षा (drākṣā). See Grape meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use grape in a sentence?
- Do I understand that the carcases of the graped cows, to which you refer, were used for food ?
- What part of speech is grape?
- Grape can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce grape?
- Grape is pronounced /ɡɹeɪp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of grape?
- The plural of grape is grapes.
Words near grape in the dictionary
Source and license
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