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grape Definition

grape (grāp)

noun

  1. any of various small, round, smooth-skinned, juicy berries, generally purple, red, or green, growing in clusters on woody vines: grapes are eaten raw, used to make wine, or dried to make raisins
  2. any of various vines (genus Vitis) of the grape family that bear grapes, including fox grape and muscadine; grapevine
  3. a dark purplish red
  4. grapeshot

Etymology: ME grap, replacing earlier winberie (see wine & berry) < OFr grape, bunch of grapes < graper, to gather with a hook < Frank *krappo (OHG chrapfo), a hook: for IE base see cradle

adjective

designating a family (Vitaceae, order Rhamnales) of dicotyledonous, tendril-bearing, climbing, woody vines, including the Virginia creeper

grape Synonyms

grape

n.

Types of grapes include: wine, raisin, seedless, white, red, lambrusca, Concord, scuppernong, summer, plum, chicken, frost, winter, fox, bush, sand, muscadine, Catawba, Delaware, Hartford, Iona, Adirondack, Rogers, Old World, Mission, Vinifera, Euvitis, Niagara, bullace, viparia, rotundifolia, Malaga, Muscat, Thompson, Pinot, Riesling, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, black Hamberg, Isabella.

grape Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • ripen: However, lack of rain is not enough as of course you need sunshine and warmth to ripen grapes.
  • tread: Here, workers would tread the grapes and the juice would pour into a large barrel below.
  • prune: When SB's sticking got far too interesting, we went and watched Chris pruning the grape [ rather late ] .

Preposition: on

  • vine: Some familiar food may be seen - apples on trees, or grapes on vines with a variety of vegetables grown in season.

Adjective modifier

  • sour: Sour grapes on behalf of your daddy, maybe?
  • seedless: Surround with seedless grapes or Little Gem lettuce leaves.
  • unripe: Verjuice is the sour ( green ) juice extracted from crab apples or unripe grapes.
  • crushed: It is a heady combination of crushed grapes and warm Chilean sun trapped in glass.

Modifies a noun

  • vine: Grape vine Almond blossom Fig leaves Olive fruit 11: In Isaiah's prophesy, what flower will bloom in the desert?
  • juice: Wine all tastes like grape juice gone horribly wrong to me.
  • hyacinth: In April the kaleidoscope of color will reach its crescendo as the deep blue river of 400,000 grape hyacinths bursts into life.
  • harvest: Here we have the chance to walk in the vineyards & experience the grape harvest followed by a wine tasting session.
  • variety: The world's hottest grape variety at under £ 5!
  • brandy: Grape brandy Grape brandy is produced by the distillation of fermented grape juice.

Noun used with modifier

  • Riesling: The Riesling grape is well adapted to well-drained poor soils, especially slate.

Preposition: of

  • wrath: Even the gasoline pumps up the road look they came out of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.
  • thorn: Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Preposition: from

  • thornbushes: You don't pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles.
  • vineyard: Yet grapes from this particular vineyard are not destined for the wine bottle.
  • vine: Eat grapes from the vine above our heads, figs from the trees, great home-cooked local food.
grape Quotes

OAutumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

—Blake,William

  The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape that's kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice.

—Suckling, SirJohn

Beulah, peel me a grape.

—West, Mae