English Explanatory Dictionary

grape

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.
  2. Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
  3. Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible.
  4. A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
  5. Clipping of grapeshot.
  6. A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
  7. A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
  8. A person's head.
adj
  1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
  2. Of a dark purplish red colour.
verb
  1. To pick grapes.
  2. Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
  3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
  4. To grope.
  5. To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).
noun
  1. Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
verb
  1. Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

Pronunciation

grāp /ɡɹeɪp/ en-uk-grape.ogg en-us-grape.ogg

Word forms

grape grapes more grape most grape graping graped

Etymology

From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Displaced native Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.

Synonyms

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Related words

grapnel grappa grapple grapist

Derived words

crangrape dessert grape grape cell grapeful grape jelly grape juice grape kernel grapeless grapelet grapelike grape-louse graperita grapery grapeseed grapeshot grapeskin grape smuggler grape smugglers grapes of wrath grape-stone grapestone grape sugar grape therapy grapetini grape tomato grapevine grape wine grapewise grapey grapy mare's teat grape miller's grape Niagara grape peel me a grape red grape sour grapes spoiled grape juice squeeze-grape table grape tablegrape white grape winegrape wine grape
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