plum

Meaning

Noun

1. The fruit and its tree.
2. The fruit and its tree.
3. The fruit and its tree.
4. The fruit and its tree.
5. The fruit and its tree.
6. The fruit and its tree.
7. The fruit and its tree.
8. The fruit and its tree.
9. The fruit and its tree.
10. The fruit and its tree.
11. The fruit and its tree.
12. The fruit and its tree.
13. The fruit and its tree.
14. The fruit and its tree.
15. (archaic) The fruit and its tree.
16. (archaic) Extended senses.
17. Extended senses.
18. Extended senses.
19. (plural-normally, slang, vulgar) Extended senses.
20. (UK, derogatory) Extended senses.

Adj

1. (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
2. (not-comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Adj

Plumb

Adv

Completely; utterly.

Verb

To plumb.

Synonyms

plum tree

prune

plumb

black

fruit

greengage

raisin

plum-tree

damson

unconditionally

Japanese apricot

soft

clean

European plum

due

entirely

every inch

fat

flat

flop

flush

forthright

forthrightly

full

fully

gage

garden

green

immediately

in full

maximally

outright

pear

🍐

perfectly

plummy

plump

point-blank

profitable

quite

right

roaring

roly-poly

sheer

sheerly

slap

soundly

square

squarely

stark

starkly

Translations

prune

Pflaume

ciruela

prugna

susina

pruim

ameixa

prunier

pruna

δαμάσκηνο

erik

Zwetschge

Pflaumenbaum

susino

Pronounced as (IPA)

/plʌm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: plomme

Inherited from Old English: plūme

In summary

From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.