plum
/plʌm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“Bright boy! here’s a plum for you,” and Polly threw a plump raisin into his mouth."
- "Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a Christmas pie; he put in his thumb, and he took out a plum, and said, “What a good boy am I!”"
- "He […] acquired a plentiful fortune, tho', to his infinite regret, he died before it amounted to a Plum […]."
- "The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay."
- "Such chances as this do not fall to a man's lot twice; but Edmond Werdet relates a story very similar indeed, and where also the "plums" fell into the lap of a London dealer."
- "As to Rev. Jerry [Falwell], he, of course, is "not anti-homosexual" but "anti-homosexuality." I guess that's his same bit of down home sophistry that explains that God listens to the prayers of Jews, if they are consciously praying to a Christian God, one of the Rev.'s latest dialectic plums."
Etymology
Etymology tree Anatolianbor. Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon)bor. Latin prūnum Vulgar Latin *prūmabor. Proto-West Germanic *plūmā Old English plūme Middle English plomme English plum From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: plomme, plūme, *plūmā, prūnum
Usage
Inflected Forms
plums (plural)
plumb (alternative, obsolete)
more plum (comparative)
most plum (superlative)
plums (present, singular)
plumming (participle, present)
plummed (participle, past)
plummed (past)