orange
/ˈɔɹənd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.62 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
Countable
noun
Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
Countable
noun
Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "“What you drinking?” “Orange and soda will go down nicely, thanks.” “Pint?” “Sure.” Andy headed for the bar, stopping along the way to kiss Shaunna and check she and Kris were OK for a drink. “Everything all right?” Sean asked."
- "I ran out into the street and around the block, searching everywhere, and finally burst into O'Dowd's pub around the corner to see Thomas sitting at the bar drinking orange and eating a bag of crisps with two old men."
- "It transpired this lad was drinking orange and faculties were keen. There were one or two verbal exchanges, then I followed him into the car park. He said to the doorman, 'I won't be long.' He easily knocked me to the ground."
- "When the fast songs played, like the Beatles' 'Help' or The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction', Justin and I sat on two wooden chairs, drinking orange and holding hands. When the nuns weren't watching, I rested my head on his shoulder."
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:orange."
- "It is this composition which reaches a colourist perfection in Le Bonheur with the complementarity of violet, purple and oranged gold"
Etymology
Etymology tree ▲ Italian melaranciacalq. Old French Orengeinflu. ▲ Old Occitan auranjainflu. Old French pomme d'orenge Old French orenge Middle French orangebor. Middle English orenge English orange Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and colour) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)). Doublet of aranzada. Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the colour in 1510. In the colour sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɔɹənd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
oranges (plural)
aurange (alternative, obsolete)
oreche (alternative, obsolete)
orenche (alternative, obsolete)
orendge (alternative, obsolete)
oreng (alternative, obsolete)
oringe (alternative, obsolete)
orrendge (alternative, obsolete)
orrenge (alternative, obsolete)
orring (alternative, obsolete)
orringe (alternative, obsolete)
orryge (alternative, obsolete)