peach
/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/
peach noun: any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
Noun (1)
peach (countable and uncountable, plural peaches)
- Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.1768, M. Combles, A Treatise Upon the Culture of Peach Trees, page 8
- Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit.1840, Thomas Bridgeman, The Young Gardener’s Assistant, page 136
- Synonyms:
- peach tree
- Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- [A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those...1789, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany, volume II, page 191
- When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes.1869, The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory, page 104
- A light yellow-red colour.
- To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor.1854, Thomas Love, The Art of Cleaning, Dyeing, Scouring and Finishing, etc, page 242
- If the dye is for a light color such as peach, more dry dye could be used.1990, Lila Fretz, Hooking Rugs: Storey’s Country Wisdom Bulletin, page 27
- A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?1922 September, Lucile Brewer, “Fourteen Peach Delicacies”, in The Delineator, volume 101, page 58
- Walking on the beaches / looking at the peaches1977, “Peaches”, in Rattus Norvegicus, performed by The Stranglers
- Buttock or bottom.
- Down on the beaches, just look at all the peaches1977, “Peaches”, performed by the Stranglers
- Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky.2011, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, A Shore Thing
Adjective
peach (comparative more peach, superlative most peach)
- Of or pertaining to the color peach.
- Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason.2006, Anne Bold-Pryor, The Naked Wall
- The dining compartment was very peach.2012, Mac Barnett, It Happened on a Train
- Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
- 'That'll be just peach with me.'2000, Marc Behm, Afraid to Death, →ISBN, page 174
- If I explain that I won't help them maintain systems running proprietary software (I'll make an exception for firmware, sometimes.) they usually shrug their shoulders and ask someone else -- which is just peach with me.2011 May 19, Gilbert Sullivan, “SWF (Adobe Flash) support”, in linux.debian.user (Usenet)
- Antonyms:
- disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant
Verb
peach (third-person singular simple present peaches, present participle peaching, simple past and past participle peached)
- To inform on someone; turn informer.
- If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.1623, Shakespeare, Henry IV
- "But will your cousin tell?" was Ripton's reflection.
"He!" Richard's lip expressed contempt. "A ploughman refuses to peach, and you ask if a Feverel will?"1859, George Meredith, chapter 9, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC
- To inform against.
- Complaining of the conduct of Sir Ralph Robinson, parson of Brede, in Sussex, who took from him a psalter book in English, printed cum privilegio regali, and peached him of heresy, whereupon he was put in the stocks by the King's constable for two days.1535, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, volume 9, published 1886, page 387
- […] and finding out the residence of his brother Charles, desires him not to peach him, but to lend him a suit of his fine cloaths, that he might see what it was to be a fine gentleman […]1774, “The British Theatre”, in London Magazine, volume 43, page 639
Noun (2)
peach (uncountable)
- A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
- Chlorite forms the characterizing ingredient in chlorite slate; it is common in Cornwall with the tin veins, constituting with quartz the rock commonly known there as killas; the ordinary name for chlorite is peach.1858, Robert Philips Greg, Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain & Ireland
- Peach, which is a word used by the Cornish miners, in a generic sense, to denote all minerals of the chloritic family—and is consequently a very convenient word—seems to be essentially the "mother" of tin; but the experience of Cornwall goes to show that peach alone does not produce a permanent tin...1862, “Illustrated Notes on Prominent Mines”, in The Mining and Smelting Magazine, volume 2, page 17
Noun (3) capitalized: Peach
Peach (plural Peaches)
- A native or resident of Georgia in the United States.
Proper noun capitalized: Peach
Peach
- A surname.
- A female given name.
peach meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
peach in Hindi
- fruit
- आड़ू āṛū, शफतालु śaphtālu, शफ़तालु śaftālu
peach in Tamil
- குழிப்பேரி, பீச், கம்பளிப்பேரி
peach in Marathi
- पीच, सप्ताळू
peach in Urdu
- fruit
- آڑو āṛū
More languagesFewer languages
- peach in Bengali
- পীচ pic
- peach in Telugu
- పీచ్, పీచ్ చెయ్యడానికి
- peach in Malayalam
- പീച്ച് pīccŭ
- peach in Kannada
- ಪೀಚ್ ಹಣ್ಣು
- peach in Punjabi
- ਆੜੂ āṛū
- peach in Odia
- ପୀଚ୍, ପୀଚ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
- peach in Nepali
- पीच
- peach in Pashto
- شلتالو shaltâlu, شوتالو šawtâlu
- peach in Tagalog
- melokoton
- peach in Arabic
- خَوْخ ḵawḵ, خَوْخَة ḵawḵa, دُرَّاق durrāq, فِرْسِك firsik
- peach in Malay
- toh, pic, persik
- peach in Indonesian
- persik, kesemek, krem
- peach in Persian
- هلو holu, شفتالو šaftâlu
- peach in Thai
- ท้อ tɔ́ɔ, พีช píit
- peach in Vietnamese
- đào
- peach in Myanmar
- မက်မွန် makmwan
- Sindhi
- آڙو āṛo
- Kashmiri
- ژٕنُن ċụnun, ژٕنٕنؠ کُل ċụnụn' kul
Examples of peach in a sentence
- Department of Agriculture facilities have largely replaced the private state and national pomological and horticultural organizations as the primary researchers for peach cultivation.2014, Melissa Walker, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, volume 11, page 183:
- Do I dare eat a peach? / I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […]...
- Boiling water or steam loosens the peel of very ripe peaches, especially freestone or melting-flesh types, in 10–30 sec.2012, Jasper Woodroof, Commercial Fruit Processing, page 103:
- Except for the loss of Uncle Jack's income, his mother's growing disenchantment with her domestic arrangements, and the deepening Depression, it was a peach of a time for Berryman.1996, Paul L. Mariani, Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman, page 30:
Synonyms of peach
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Forms of peach
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | peaches |
| plural | Peaches |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more peach |
| superlative | most peach |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | peaches |
| present participle | peaching |
| past participle | peached |
| past | peached |
Origin of peach
From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.
From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.
* As an English surname, from French péché (“sin”). Compare Peachey, Petch. * As a German surname, Americanized from Pietsch.
Words formed from peach
- blue peach
- green peach
- peach tourmaline
- African peach
- Anderson's peachbrush
- belly-up peach
- bloom is off the peach
- blush is off the peach
- Chinese peach
- cling peach
- clingstone peach
- custard peach
- desert peach
- donut peach
- doughnut peach
- flat peach
- freestone peach
- freeze peach
- fuzzless peach
- green peach aphid
- Guinea peach
- hat peach
- Indian peach
- Jupiter peach
- lesser peach tree borer
- little peach
- longevity peach
- pan tao peach
- paraguayo peach
- peacharita
- peach bark beetle
- peach basket hat
- peach blossom
- peachblow
- peach borer
- peachbush
- Peach County
- peachen
- peacherine
- peacherino
- peachery
- peaches and cream
- peach-fronted parakeet
- peach-fronted conure
- peach fruit borer
- peach fruit moth
- peach fuzz
- peachfuzz
- peaching
- peachish
- peachleaf
- peachleaf bellflower
- peach leaf curl
- peach-leaf willow
- peachleaf willow
- peachless
- peachlet
- peachlike
- peach melba
- peach oak
Phrases with peach
Words that rhyme with peach
Questions about peach
- What does peach mean?
- Peach means any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- What is peach in Hindi?
- Peach in Hindi is आड़ू (āṛū), शफतालु (śaphtālu), शफ़तालु (śaftālu). See Peach meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use peach in a sentence?
- Department of Agriculture facilities have largely replaced the private state and national pomological and horticultural organizations as the primary researchers for peach cultivation.
- What part of speech is peach?
- Peach can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce peach?
- Peach is pronounced /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/.
- What is the plural of peach?
- The plural of peach is peaches.
Words near peach in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: peach (page history and authors); Peach (page history and authors); peach (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peach (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peach (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); പീച്ച് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); peach (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਆੜੂ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); peach (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peach (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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