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plum

/pl/@/m/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

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

    noun.plant

    Source: WordNet 3.0

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

    noun.food

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  3. a highly desirable position or assignment

    noun.act

    Examples
    A political plum.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  4. The edible drupaceous fruit of the <i>Prunus domestica</i>, and of several other species of <i>Prunus</i>; also, the tree itself, usually called <i>plum tree</i>.

    noun

    Source: webster1913

  5. Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.

    noun

    Source: webster1913

adverb

  1. exactly

    adv.all

    Examples
    Fell plumb in the middle of the puddle.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  2. completely; used as intensifiers

    adv.all

    Examples
    I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

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