Grape Definition

grāp
grapes
noun
grapes
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.
Webster's New World
Any of various vines (genus Vitis) of the grape family that bear grapes, including fox grape and muscadine; grapevine.
Webster's New World
A dark purplish-red color.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
Grapeshot.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Designating a family (Vitaceae, order Rhamnales) of dicotyledonous, tendril-bearing, climbing, woody vines, including the Virginia creeper.
Webster's New World

Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.

Wiktionary
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Grape

Noun

Singular:
grape
Plural:
grapes

Origin of Grape

  • From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Old Low Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krappô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (German Krapfe, “hook”). More at cramp.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French bunch of grapes, hook of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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