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oliveless

oliveless adjective: without olives.

Adjective

oliveless (not comparable)

  1. Without olives.
    • She sipped at an oliveless martini.
    • These orbital cultural pressures are what you would expect – this is a relatively low-self-esteem, ingredient-thin bit of Europe, hemmed in by other cultures with access to serious sunlight: it is melonless, basilless, oliveless.2010, Simon Winder, “I’ll have some green sauce with that”, in Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern, London: Picador, →ISBN, chapter 1, page 33

Origin of oliveless

From olive + -less.

Questions about oliveless

What does oliveless mean?
Oliveless means without olives.
What part of speech is oliveless?
Oliveless is an adjective.

Words near oliveless in the dictionary

  1. olivegrowers
  2. olivegrowing
  3. Olivehurst
  4. Oliveira
  5. Oliveiras
  6. oliveless
  7. olivelike
  8. olivellid
  9. olivellids
  10. oliveness
  11. Olivenhain

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