Definitions for plum

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plum plum

Spelling: [pluhm]

IPA: /plʌm/

Plum is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in plum (lmpu).

Definitions for plum

noun

1. the drupaceous fruit of any of several trees belonging to the genus Prunus, of the rose family, having an oblong stone.
2. the tree itself.
3. any of various other trees bearing a plumlike fruit.
4. the fruit itself.
5. a sugarplum.
6. a raisin, as in a cake or pudding.
7. a deep purple varying from bluish to reddish.
8. Informal. an excellent or desirable thing, as a fine position:
9. Informal. an unanticipated large increase in money or property, as an unexpected legacy; a windfall:
10. Also called displacer. a large stone used in massive concrete construction.
11. a city in SW Pennsylvania.

adjective

1. extremely desirable, rewarding, profitable, or the like:

adjective, adverb

1. plumb (defs 2–6).

Origin of plum

before 900; Middle English; Old English plūme (cognate with German Pflaume) ≪ Greek proûmnon plum, proúmnē plum tree; cf. prune¹

Examples for plum

Hence the apple, pear, and plum are often grafted on the white thorn.

I'm plum 'shamed of the way our gals is actin' with the boarders.

In the GOP, controversialists like John Bolton and Elliott Abrams get plum foreign-policy jobs.

After realizing how difficult this plum post would be, “Biden” writes that he “wised up and settled on my current fallback plan.”

At least those parents whose kids landed the plum roles will be.

It was popularized as a holiday dessert in 16th-century England and also is known as Christmas pudding or plum pudding.

Central won thirty-three consecutive games, and Suffridge became a plum for the college recruiters.

Turkey was twenty-three cents a pound, but she had one, and plum puddin', too.

This ground he cultivates and has a few apple, plum and peach trees in his yard.

But still,—still it is so poor a thing to miss your plum because you do not dare to shake the tree!