PLUM | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of plum in English plumnoun [ C or U ] uk /plʌm/ us /plʌm/ Add to word list Add to word list a small, round fruit with a thin, smooth, red, purple, or yellow skin, sweet, soft flesh, and a single large, hard seed, or the tree on which this fruit grows: Grandpa planted a lot of fruit trees, including gooseberry, blackcurrant, plum, and loganberry.plum jam plum tree   Boonchuay1970/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages

• purple plums
• These plums are a bit sour.
• Peaches, plums, dates, avocados, and olives all contain stones.
• She bit into a plum.
• plum crumble

Types of fruit

• ackee
• alligator pear
• alpine strawberry
• amla
• açaí
• cooker
• cooking apple
• copra
• crab apple
• cranberry
• lychee
• majhool date
• makrut lime
• mandarin
• mango
• salmonberry
• saskatoon
• satsuma
• satsuma plum
• scuppernong

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plum adjective (GOOD)

[ before noun ] plummer | plummest very good and worth having: plum job How did you manage to get such a plum job? Informal words for good

• A-OK
• amazeballs
• apple pie
• awesomesauce
• badass
• dank
• insane
• juicy
• killer
• knock
• knock spots off something idiom
• like a boss idiom
• lit
• out of sight idiom
• royally
• rule OK idiom
• safe
• shabby
• shit hot
• sight

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plum adjective (COLOUR)

(also plum-coloured) having a dark reddish-purple colour: plum-coloured She was wearing a plum-coloured dress. Less common colours

• apple green
• argent
• ashy
• avocado
• baby blue
• carmine
• cerise
• dun
• emerald
• mauve
• peacock blue
• periwinkle
• pistachio
• Prussian blue
• racing green
• ruddily
• rust
• sapphire
• shocking pink
• terracotta

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Idiom

a plum in your mouth (Definition of plum from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

plum | American Dictionary

plumnoun [ C ] us /plʌm/

plum noun [C] (FRUIT)

Add to word list Add to word list a small, round fruit with a smooth, usually red-purple skin, sweet flesh, and a single large seed

plum noun [C] (SOMETHING GOOD)

something that is very good and worth having

plum

adjective [ not gradable ] us /plʌm/ Senior staff members get all the plum assignments. (Definition of plum from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of plum

plum A number of interests conducted experiments on a commercial scale in the drying of plums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the case of cherries and plums, the prices of the foreign fruit were higher. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then the alternatives were quoted—melons, cherries, plums and pears. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Plums and cherries sound very much nicer, and one is glad to go from the vegetable world to the fruit world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At present the rates of wages which you offer are too low, the prospects are hazy, and the plums are too few. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have all got to pay more for currants, plums, potatoes, tomatoes and turnips. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the start of the 1948 season the prospects are that there will be a good crop of plums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You would leave it like a cake without any plums in it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that it would be an attraction to entrants into the teaching profession if there were a few large plums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The position in regard to plums is still a little uncertain. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the less loss-making part, the plums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me give an instance with regard to plums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not see why one should not produce their plums and give them a bit of publicity, even if we cannot get any ourselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have also looked after hens, picked small fruit, and picked and sorted pears, apples and plums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a reasonable prospect of plums becoming available for home jam-making later in the year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of plum These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of plum?

Translations of plum

in Chinese (Traditional) 李子, 梅子, 好的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 李子, 梅子, 好的… See more in Spanish ciruela, deseable, ciruela [feminine… See more in Portuguese ameixa, ameixa [feminine]… See more in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian in Italian プラム, セイヨウモモ… See more erik… See more prune [feminine], prune… See more pruna… See more pruim… See more švestka… See more blomme… See more buah plum… See more ลูกพลัม… See more quả mận… See more śliwka… See more plommon… See more plum… See more die Pflaume… See more plomme [masculine], plomme… See more 자두… See more слива… See more susina, prugna… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of plum

• plum duff
• beach plum
• plum tomato
• Japanese plum
• plum pudding
• satsuma plum
• sugar plum, at sugarplum

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  • Adjective 
    • plum (GOOD)
    • plum (COLOUR)
• American   
  • Noun 
    • plum (FRUIT)
    • plum (SOMETHING GOOD)
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