olive oil
olive oil noun: a vegetable oil, pressed from olives, and used in cooking and as a salad dressing; it is high in unsaturated fatty acids.
Noun
olive oil (countable and uncountable, plural olive oils)
- A vegetable oil, pressed from olives, and used in cooking and as a salad dressing; it is high in unsaturated fatty acids.
- Synonyms:
- sweet oil, oil of olives
olive oil meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
olive oil in Hindi
- oil pressed from olives
- ज़ैतून का तेल zaitūn kā tel
olive oil in Tamil
- ஆலிவ் எண்ணெய், ஒலிவெண்ணெய்
olive oil in Urdu
- oil pressed from olives
- زیتون کا تیل zaitūn kā tel
olive oil in Malayalam
- oil pressed from olives
- സൈത്തെണ്ണ saitteṇṇa
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- olive oil in Punjabi
- ਜੈਤੂਨ ਦਾ ਤੇਲ jaitūn dā tel
- olive oil in Gujarati
- જેતૂનનું તેલ jetūnnũ tel
- olive oil in Tagalog
- langis ng oliba, aseyte-de-oliba, aseytuna
- olive oil in Arabic
- زَيْت زَيْتُون zayt zaytūn
- olive oil in Malay
- minyak zaitun
- olive oil in Indonesian
- minyak zaitun
- olive oil in Persian
- روغن زیتون rowġan-e zeytun
- olive oil in Thai
- น้ำมันมะกอก nám-man-má-gɔ̀ɔk
- olive oil in Myanmar
- သံလွင်ဆီ samlwanghci
- Sindhi
- زيتون جو تيل zetõ jo tel
Synonyms of olive oil
Forms of olive oil
| plural | olive oils |
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Origin of olive oil
From olive + oil. Compare earlier oil of olives.
Words formed from olive oil
Questions about olive oil
- What does olive oil mean?
- Olive oil means a vegetable oil, pressed from olives, and used in cooking and as a salad dressing; it is high in unsaturated fatty acids.
- What is olive oil in Hindi?
- Olive oil in Hindi is ज़ैतून का तेल (zaitūn kā tel). See Olive oil meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is olive oil?
- Olive oil is a noun.
- What is the plural of olive oil?
- The plural of olive oil is olive oils.
Words near olive oil in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: olive oil (page history and authors); olive oil (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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