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/ˈæpəl/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A round fruit with red, green, or yellow skin.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

Examples

  • Take the skin off before you eat the apple.

  • There is an apple on the desk.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • [ˈæpəl] ~ [ˈæpl̩]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.

  2. Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1).

  3. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.

More examples

In context

  • There is one apple on the desk.

  • custard apple rose apple thorn apple

  • He's only three apples tall

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Cognate with Scots aipple (“apple”), North Frisian aapel, Oapel, ååpel (“apple”), Saterland Frisian Apel, Appel (“apple”), West Frisian apel, appel (“apple”), Alemannic German effél, epfel, epfil, öpfil (“apple”), Bavarian eipfele, epfl, Åpfe (“apple”), Cimbrian oupfal, öpfel, öpfl (“apple”), Dutch appel (“apple”), German Apfel (“apple”), German Low German Appel (“apple”), Limburgish Ape̩l, appel (“apple”), Luxembourgish Apel (“apple”), Mòcheno epfl (“apple”), Vilamovian epuł (“apple”), Yiddish עפּל (epl, “apple”), Danish æble (“apple”), Faroese epl, epli (“apple; potato”), Icelandic epli (“apple”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk eple (“apple”), Swedish äpple (“apple”), Crimean Goth...