grape

CEFRA1

/ɡɹeɪp/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small round fruit that grows in bunches on a vine.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible.

Examples

  • Would you like to drink a glass of grape juice?

  • I like grape jelly best.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ɡɹæɪp/
  • /ɡɹep/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.

  2. A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.

  3. 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.

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In context

  • Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.

  • Ivo saw the grape.

  • wild grape covering the back slope

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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.