grapefruit

CEFRA2

/ˈɡɹeɪ̯pfɹuːt/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A large round citrus fruit with pale yellow or pink flesh.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Large breasts; by extension, a woman with large breasts.

Examples

  • The bag was about the size of a grapefruit.

  • I prefer grapefruit to oranges.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /ˈɡɹæɪ̯pfɹʉːt/
  • /ˈɡɹeɪ̯pfɹut/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.

  2. The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange.

More examples

In context

  • Cupping her grapefruits in her hands, she closed her eyes and imagined her date grasping them, exploring their size, weight, and firmness.

  • Tom doesn't like grapefruit.

  • Once loaded by Canaveral, the grapefruit are transported to Japan, where the shipments are unloaded by employees of Japanese stevedoring companies. The grapefruit are then received by the Japanese importers.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Widely assumed to be a marketing term from grape + fruit, an allusion to the supposed grapelike clusters of fruit on the tree, early 19th c. Ciardi proposes another theory: one of the pomelo's botanical names is Citrus grandis, meaning “great citrus [fruit]”, due to the size of its fruit. A new pomelo variety might first have been called a GRAYT-froot (see greatfruit), and through the process of assimilation, the word came to be pronounced GRAYP-froot.