English Explanatory Dictionary

peach

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
  2. 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.
  3. A light yellow-red colour.
  4. A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
  5. Buttock or bottom.
adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the color peach.
  2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
verb
  1. To inform on someone; turn informer.
  2. To inform against.
noun
  1. A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
noun
  1. A native or resident of Georgia in the United States.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A female given name.

Pronunciation

/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/ [ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ] en-us-peach.ogg

Word forms

peach peaches more peach most peach peaching peached

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s)bor. Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)der. Late Latin Persa Late Latin persicus Late Latin persicum Late Latin persica Vulgar Latin *pessica Old French peschebor. Middle English peche English 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.

Synonyms

peach tree agreeable fair orange paragon peachy rosy sing squeal tattle bewray blow the whistle clepe denounce dime dime out dob drop a dime drop a dime on someone finger fink fizgig inform inform on grass on grass up lolly up name names nark peach rat on rat out roll on snitch snitch up squeak tell tell all tell on tell tales tip off turn in

Antonyms

disagreeable foul ugly unpleasant

Related words

🍑 laetrile nectarine

Derived words

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 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 peachfuzz peach fuzz peaching peachish peachleaf peachleaf bellflower peach leaf curl peach-leaf willow peachleaf willow peachless peachlet peachlike peach melba peach oak peach of immortality peach palm peach phony disease peach pit

Translations

Abkhaz: атама Afrikaans: perske Alabama: takkola Albanian: pjeshkë Amharic: ኮክ Arabic: خَوْخ Arabic: خَوْخَة Arabic: دُرَّاق Arabic: فِرْسِك Arabic: خوخ Arabic: خوحة Arabic: دراق Aragonese: malacatón Aragonese: presiego Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܵܘܚܵܐ Mandaic: ࡊࡀࡅࡊࡀ Armenian: դեղձ Aromanian: chearsicã Aromanian: hearhicã Asturian: piescu Azerbaijani: şaftalı Azerbaijani: hulu Basque: mertxika Belarusian: пе́рсік Bengali: পীচ Breton: pechez collective noun pechezenn Bulgarian: пра́скова Burmese: မက်မွန် Carpathian Rusyn: броскы́ня Catalan: préssec Catalan: melicotó Cherokee: ᏆᏅ Chickasaw: takolo Chinese Cantonese: 桃 Chinese Cantonese: 桃子 Chinese Cantonese: 蜜桃 Eastern Min Chinese: 桃 Chinese Mandarin: 桃 Chinese Mandarin: 桃子 Choctaw: takkon Cornish: aval gwlanek Czech: broskev Danish: fersken Dutch: perzik Egyptian: d:p-H-M1-n-p:r-s-N25 Esperanto: persiko Estonian: virsik Faroese: ferska Finnish: persikka French: pêche North Frisian: Fersk West-Frisian: perzik Friulian: piersul Afrikaans: perskekleurig Indonesian: krem Scottish Gaelic: peitseagach Ukrainian: пе́рсиковий
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