clean, plumb, plum
(adverb) completely; used as intensifiers; “clean forgot the appointment”; “I’m plumb (or plum) tuckered out”
plumb, plum
(adverb) exactly; “fell plumb in the middle of the puddle”
plum
(noun) a highly desirable position or assignment; “a political plum”
plum
(noun) any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
plum, plum tree
(noun) any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
Source: WordNet® 3.1
plum (plural plums)
The fruit and its tree.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour. [from 8th c.]
The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica. [from 8th c.]
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow. [from 16th c.]
Prunus sect. Prunus
Prunus cerasifera, the cherry plum or myrobalan
Prunus salicina the Chinese plum or Japanese plum
Prunus spinosa, the sloe
Prunus ursina the bear's plum
Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
Prunus americana, the American plum
Prunus angustifolia, the Chickasaw plum or sand plum
Prunus hortulana, the hortulan plum
Prunus nigra, the Canadian plum or black plum
Prunus rivularis, the creek plum or hog plum
Prunus subcordata, the Klamath plum or Oregon plum
Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
(now, rare) A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake. [from 17th c.]
Extended senses.
(now, rare, archaic) One hundred thousand pounds; (generally) a fortune. [from 18th c.]
A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc. [from 19th c.]
A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums. [from 19th c.]
(slang, usually, in the plural) A testicle. [from 20th c.]
(pejorative, chiefly, UK) A fool, an idiot.
• (tree): plum tree, plumtree
• (edible fleshy fruit of Prunus mume): ume
plum (comparative more plum, superlative most plum)
(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
plum (comparative more plum, superlative most plum)
Plumb
plum (not comparable)
Completely; utterly.
plum (third-person singular simple present plums, present participle plumming, simple past and past participle plummed)
(mining) To plumb.
• lump
Plum (plural Plums)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Plum is the 11362nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2777 individuals. Plum is most common among White (93.23%) individuals.
• lump
Source: Wiktionary
Plum, n. Etym: [AS.plume, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. Prune a dried plum.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree. The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. G. Bentham. are in bold format, like collocations.
Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the Prunus domestica are described; among them the greengage, the Orleans, the purple gage, or Reine Claude Violette, and the German prune, are some of the best known.
Note: Among the true plums are; Beach plum, the Prunus maritima, and its crimson or purple globular drupes, -- Bullace plum. See Bullace.
– Chickasaw plum, the American Prunus Chicasa, and its round red drupes.
– Orleans plum, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets.
– Wild plum of America, Prunus Americana, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the Iowa plum and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than Prunus, are; Australian plum, Cargillia arborea and C. australis, of the same family with the persimmon.
– Blood plum, the West African Hæmatostaphes Barteri.
– Cocoa plum, the Spanish nectarine. See under Nectarine.
– Date plum. See under Date.
– Gingerbread plum, the West African Parinarium macrophyllum.
– Gopher plum, the Ogeechee lime.
– Gray plum, Guinea plum. See under Guinea.
– Indian plum, several species of Flacourtia.
2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. Plum bird, Plum budder (Zoöl.), the European bullfinch.
– Plum gouger (Zoöl.), a weevil, or curculio (Coccotorus scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel.
– Plum weevil (Zoöl.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also turk, and plum curculio. See Illust. under Curculio.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
