noun

grape

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noun

A small, round, juicy fruit that grows in clusters on a vine, eaten fresh or used to make wine, juice, and raisins.

"She popped a handful of grapes into her mouth."

"These grapes are used mainly for red wine production."

adj

Flavored like grapes, especially a sweet, artificial grape taste.

"He picked the grape-flavored lollipop from the jar."

How to Use Grape

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishThe small fruit used for eating, wine, and raisins.

Common mistake

"Sour grapes" is an idiom meaning pretending not to want something you can't have — it doesn't describe an actual grape.

Common pairings

bunch of grapes grape juice sour grapes wine grapes

Word Forms

more grape comparative, graped past tense, graped past tense, grapes plural, grapes singular, grapes singular, most grape superlative

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Etymology

From Old French grappe, "bunch of grapes," originally meaning "hook," since grapes were harvested with a hooked tool. It displaced the earlier Old English word "wine-berry."

Rhymes for grape

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