grape
/ɡɹeɪp/ noun, adjective, verb
Forms grapes graping graped
- noun (countable) 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. “Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.”
- noun (countable, uncountable) Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine. “wild grape covering the back slope”
- noun (countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible. “sea grape; tail grape”
- noun (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. “For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.”
- noun (pathology) A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
- noun (US, naval slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
- noun (African-American Vernacular, slang) A person's head.
- adjective Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
- adjective Of a dark purplish red colour.
- verb To pick grapes.
- verb Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
- verb To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
- verb (Northern UK) To grope.
- verb (Hong Kong) To envy (from sour grapes).
- noun (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
Synonyms
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced 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.
From rape, influenced by grape.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.
- noun The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
Etymology [OF. grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes, F. grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp, Grapnel, Grapple.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “grape”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details