Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: grape
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'eɪp]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: grape
    Meaning: any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
Usage examples
  • Cold Branch lay on the edge of the grape and corn lands.
  • In meeting woods, whereon a film of mist Slept like the bloom upon the purple grape,
  • A green grape dropped in a cocktail so the customer can pull it out with his fingers.
  • Tamarinds, currant or grape jelly, cranberries, or dried fruit of any kind, make a good drink.
  • The Rebel commander had expected us, and had his grape shot and his hot water hose, and such things all ready for us.
  • For the rich southwest wind fed them, till pear grew ripe on pear, fig on fig, and grape on grape, all the winter and the spring.
  • He could not find a sweet grape or a ripe fig (if Epimetheus had a fault, it was a little too much fondness for figs); or, if ripe at all, they were overripe, and so sweet as to be cloying.