Definitions for plum
plʌmplum

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. plum, plum treenoun

   any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

2. plumnoun

   any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit

3. plumadverb

   a highly desirable position or assignment

   "a political plum"

4. plumb, plumadverb

   exactly

   "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"

5. clean, plumb, plumadverb

   completely; used as intensifiers

   "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Plumnoun

   A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.

2. Plumnoun

   Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Plumnoun

   Etymology: plum , plumtreow , Sax. blumme, Danish.

   1. A fruit.

   The flower consists of five leaves, which are placed in a circular order, and expand in form of a rose, from whose flower-cup rises the pointal, which afterwards becomes an oval or globular fruit, having a soft fleshy pulp, surrounding an hard oblong stone, for the most part pointed; to which should be added, the footstalks are long and slender, and have but a single fruit upon each: the species are;
   1. The jeanhâtive, or white primordian.
   2. The early black damask, commonly called the Morocco plum.
   3. The little black damask plum.
   4. The great damask violet of Tours.
   5. The Orleans plum.
   6. The Fotheringham plum.
   7. The Perdrigon plum.
   8. The violet Perdrigon plum.
   9. The white Perdrigon plum.
   10. The red imperial plum, sometimes called the red bonum magnum.
   11. The white imperial bonum magnum; white Holland or Mogul plum.
   12. The Cheston plum.
   13. The apricot plum.
   14. The maître claude.
   15. La roche-courbon, or diaper rouge; the red diaper plum.
   16. Queen Claudia.
   17. Myrobalan plum.
   18. The green gage plum.
   19. The cloth of gold plum.
   20. St. Catharine plum.
   21. The royal plum.
   22. La mirabelle.
   23. The Brignole plum.
   24. The empress.
   25. The monsieur plum: this is sometimes called the Wentworth plum, both resembling the bonum magnum.
   26. The cherry plum.
   27. The white pear plum.
   28. The muscle plum.
   29. The St. Julian plum.
   30. The black bullace-tree plum.
   31. The white bullace-tree plum.
   32. The black thorn or sloe-tree plum. Philip Miller.

   Philosophers in vain enquired, whether the summum bonum consisted in riches, bodily delights, virtue or contemplation: they might as reasonably have disputed, whether the best relish were in apples, plums or nuts. John Locke.

   2. Raisin; grape dried in the sun.

   I will dance, and eat plums at your wedding. William Shakespeare.

   3. [In the cant of the city.] The sum of one hundred thousand pounds.

   By the present edict, many a man in France will swell into a plum, who fell several thousand pounds short of it the day before. Addison.

   The miser must make up his plum,
   And dares not touch the hoarded sum. Matthew Prior.

   By fair dealing John had acquired some plums, which he might have kept, had it not been for his law-suit. Arbuth.

   Ask you,
   Why she and Sapho raise that monstrous sum?
   Alas! they fear a man will cost a plum. Alexander Pope.

   4.A kind of play, called how many plums for a penny. Robert Ainsworth

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Plum

   A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus. Dried plums are called prunes.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. plum

   A plum is a small, spherical or oval-shaped fruit with sweet flesh and a flattened pit at the center. It belongs to the Rosaceae family and the genus Prunus, which also includes peaches, apricots, and cherries. Plums come in a variety of colors, including purple, red, yellow and green, depending on the species. They can be eaten fresh or used in cooking and baking. They are also commonly dried to create prunes.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Plumnoun

   the edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree

2. Plumnoun

   a grape dried in the sun; a raisin

3. Plumnoun

   a handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

4. Etymology: [AS. plme, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. , . Cf. Prune a dried plum.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Plum

   A plum is a drupe fruit of the subgenus Prunus of the genus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera in the shoots having a terminal bud and solitary side buds, the flowers in groups of one to five together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side and a smooth stone. Mature plum fruit may have a dusty-white coating that gives them a glaucous appearance. This is an epicuticular wax coating and is known as "wax bloom". Dried plum fruits are called dried plums or prunes, although prunes are a distinct type of plum, and may have antedated the fruits now commonly known as plums.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Plum

   plum, n. a well-known stone fruit of various colours, of the natural order Rosaceæ: the tree producing it: the best part of all: a sum of £100,000, a handsome fortune.—ns. Plum′-cake, a cake containing raisins, currants, &c.; Plum′-duff, a flour-pudding boiled with raisins.—adj. Plum′my, full of plums: desirable.—ns. Plum′-porr′idge, an antiquated dish, of porridge with plums, raisins, &c.; Plum′-pudd′ing, a national English dish made of flour and suet, with raisins, currants, and various spices. [A.S. plúme—L. prunum—Gr. prounon.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PLUM

   A fruit that ripens and falls from the Political Tree--but only after careful grafting.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. plum

   A type of cultivar, fruit, plant, seed and tree created and cultivated in various colors and species.

   The plum is a beautiful fruit and is cultivated in a variety of colors across the world.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 3, 2017  

2. ---

   plum

   A type of fruit.

   Plums are a valued fruit.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 22, 2020  

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1. plum

   The plum symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the plum symbol and its characteristic.

2. PLUM

   What does PLUM stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PLUM acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PLUM

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Plum is ranked #11362 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Plum surname appeared 2,777 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Plum.
   
   93.2% or 2,589 total occurrences were White.
   2.1% or 59 total occurrences were Black.
   1.6% or 46 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 44 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.9% or 26 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.4% or 13 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Drupe
   • Edible Fruit
   • Fruit Tree

Anagrams for plum »

1. lump

How to pronounce plum?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of plum in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of plum in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of plum in a Sentence

1. Francis Marion:

   Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

2. Logan Pearsall Smith:

   What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=plum
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=plum
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=plum
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plum
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=plum
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=plum
9. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=plum
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html