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pine

UK/paɪn/

pine noun: any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

pine: any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus
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Noun (1)

pine (countable and uncountable, plural pines)

  1. Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
    • The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
    • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    pine tree, pinus
  2. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  3. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
    • Give disease, so the swine will marry and propagate lies / Tough luck for elected officials, the beast you see got 50 eyes / Bring it on home, spread the wealth / Play it cool, the hand's been dealt / Now all the odds are in our favor / Save the victory speeches for later / Streets on fire / The...2004, “The Mob Goes Wild”, in Blast Tyrant (Stoner Rock; Hard Rock), performed by Clutch
    Synonyms:
    pinewood
  4. (Australia, Guyana, South Africa, archaic except Caribbean) A pineapple.
    • "[…] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
    • Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] [S]he put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair.1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, chapter 7, pages 38–39
  5. (colloquial, uncountable) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
    • […] rather than languish on the pine in Miami.2013, Sam Zygner, The Forgotten Marlins, page 287
    • Take off your gear and hit the pine. And don't take your time. You understand me, boy?2019, Martin Copeland, The Boys from Dogtown
  6. (colloquial, uncountable) A counter or bartop.
    • I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!

Noun (2)

pine (plural pines)

  1. (archaic) A painful longing.

Verb

pine (third-person singular simple present pines, present participle pining, simple past and past participle pined)

  1. (intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
    • Why pine not I, and die in this distress?c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published...
    • [T]hou mayſt know / What miſerie th' inabſtinence of Eve / Shall bring on men. Immediately a place / Before his eyes appeard, ſad, noyſom, dark, / A Lazar-houſe it ſeemd, wherein were laid / Numbers all diſeas'd, […] / […] / Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie / And Moon-ſtruck madneſs, pining...1674, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, pages 299–300
    Synonyms:
    languish, droop
  2. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
    • Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
    • Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk."
      Shopkeeper: "It's probably pining for the fiords."
      Praline: "Pining for the fiords, what kind of talk is...1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by shopkeeper and Mr Praline (Michael Palin and John Cleese)
    Synonyms:
    long, yearn
  3. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
  4. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.
    • Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband.1648, Joseph Hall, “The Breathings of the Devout Soul”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […]...

Proper noun capitalized: Pine

Pine (plural Pines)

  1. A surname

pine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

pine in Hindi

tree of the genus Pinus
चीड़ cīṛ, चीढ़ cīṛh, सनोबर sanobar, सनोवर sanovar

pine in Tamil

ஏங்கு, உருகு, வாடு, தேய், தேவதாரு மரம்

pine in Marathi

to pine, yearn, long
झुरणे jhurṇe

pine in Urdu

tree of the genus Pinus
چلغوز chilġoz
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pine in Bengali
সরলবৃক্ষ, ক্ষয় হওয়া, শুকাইয়া যাওয়া, কৃশ হওয়া
pine in Telugu
కుములు kumulu
pine in Malayalam
ചീഡ cīḍa
pine in Kannada
ಪೀತದಾರು ಮರ, ದೇವದಾರು ಮರ, ಮೆತುದಾರು, ನರಳು
pine in Punjabi
چیلھ celh
pine in Gujarati
પાઈન, પાઇન
pine in Odia
ପାଇନ୍
pine in Sanskrit
सरला sáralā
pine in Assamese
সৰল xorol
pine in Nepali
सल्ला sallā
pine in Pashto
نښتر naẍtar, صنوبر ṣanaubar
pine in Tagalog
pino
pine in Arabic
صَنَوْبَر ṣanawbar, صنوبر ṣunubar, صُنوبر ṣunōbar
pine in Malay
pinus, pain, sanubar
pine in Indonesian
tusam, pinus
pine in Persian
کاج kâj, ناژو nâžu, نشک našk, تاسه tâse
pine in Thai
สน sǒn
pine in Vietnamese
thông, tùng

Examples of pine in a sentence

  • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  • This night shall see the gaudy wreath decline, The roses wither and the lilies pine.170?, Thomas Tickell, To a Lady; With a Present of Flowers:
  • The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field, →ISBN, page 29:
  • Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war.2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times:

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Synonyms of pine

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Forms of pine

Noun
pluralpines
alternative form (obsolete)pyne
Verb
third-person singular presentpines
present participlepining
past participlepined
pastpined
Proper noun
pluralPines

Plural of pine: pines

Origin of pine

From Middle English pyne, from Old English *pīne, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā, from Latin pīnus, see there for more. Doublet of pinus. Possibly related to fat.

From Middle English pyne, pine, probably from Old English *pīne (“pain”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pain, torment, torture”), possibly from Latin poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Cognate to pain. Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to Middle Dutch pinen, Old High German pīnōn, Old Norse pína.

From Middle English pynen, from Old English pīnian (“to torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pain, torment, torture”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with German peinigen (“to torment, torture”), Icelandic pína (“to torment”).

Words formed from pine

Phrases with pine

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Words that rhyme with pine

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Questions about pine

What does pine mean?
Pine means any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
What is pine in Hindi?
Pine in Hindi is चीड़ (cīṛ), चीढ़ (cīṛh), सनोबर (sanobar). See Pine meaning in Hindi.
How do you use pine in a sentence?
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes.
What part of speech is pine?
Pine can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pine?
Pine is pronounced /paɪn/ (UK).
What is the plural of pine?
The plural of pine is pines.

Words near pine in the dictionary

  1. pindotted
  2. pindown
  3. pindownable
  4. pindrop
  5. Pindus
  6. pine
  7. pine aphid
  8. pine aphids
  9. pine away
  10. Pine Bluff
  11. pine box

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pine (page history and authors); Pine (page history and authors); pine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); झुरणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); pine (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కుములు (Telugu) (page history and authors); pine (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pine (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pine (Odia, 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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