pippin
pippin noun: a seed.
Noun (1)
pippin (plural pippins)
- A seed.
Noun (2)
pippin (plural pippins)
- Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red.
- Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties.
- An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted) or its fruit.
- Upon which account ’tis that the Juice of ripe pulpy Apples, as Pippins, Rennetings, &c. that are of a ſyrupy tenacious nature, do detain in them more of the diſperſed particles of the Fruit that by the Preſſure comes out with the Liquor; […]1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Some Observations Relating to Cyder”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock...
- An excellent or admirable person or thing.
Proper noun capitalized: Pippin
Pippin (plural Pippins)
- A surname.
- A male given name.
pippin meaning in Urdu
pippin in Urdu
- بیج, گٹھلی
Forms of pippin
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pippins |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pippins |
Origin of pippin
From Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin). See pip.
Probably from Middle English pipin (“a seed”), as being raised from the seed.
Words formed from pippin
Phrases with pippin
Questions about pippin
- What does pippin mean?
- Pippin means a seed.
- What is pippin in Urdu?
- Pippin in Urdu is بیج, گٹھلی. See Pippin meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is pippin?
- Pippin can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of pippin?
- The plural of pippin is pippins.
Words near pippin in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pippin (page history and authors); Pippin (page history and authors); pippin (Urdu 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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “pippin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pippin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.