noun
apple
A-puhl
noun
1
A round, firm fruit with red, green, or yellow skin and crisp white flesh, grown on trees.
"She packed an apple and a sandwich for lunch."
"He picked apples straight from the orchard."
How to Use Apple
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe common tree fruit, and also an informal nickname for New York City ("the Big Apple").
Common pairings
a rotten apple
apple pie
the Big Apple
Word Forms
appled past tense, Apples plural, Apples plural, apples singular
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Etymology
From Old English æppel, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, going back to a very old Indo-European root for "apple" or fruit in general.