PLUM | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of plum in English
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plum adjective
(GOOD )
plum adjective
(COLOUR )
(Definition of plum from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of plum
plum
A number of interests conducted experiments on a commercial scale in the drying of plums.
In the case of cherries and plums, the prices of the foreign fruit were higher.
Then the alternatives were quoted—melons, cherries, plums and pears.
Plums and cherries sound very much nicer, and one is glad to go from the vegetable world to the fruit world.
At present the rates of wages which you offer are too low, the prospects are hazy, and the plums are too few.
We have all got to pay more for currants, plums, potatoes, tomatoes and turnips.
At the start of the 1948 season the prospects are that there will be a good crop of plums.
You would leave it like a cake without any plums in it.
I do not believe that it would be an attraction to entrants into the teaching profession if there were a few large plums.
The position in regard to plums is still a little uncertain.
They are the less loss-making part, the plums.
Let me give an instance with regard to plums.
I do not see why one should not produce their plums and give them a bit of publicity, even if we cannot get any ourselves.
I have also looked after hens, picked small fruit, and picked and sorted pears, apples and plums.
There is a reasonable prospect of plums becoming available for home jam-making later in the year.
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Translations of plum
in Chinese (Traditional)
李子, 梅子, 好的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
李子, 梅子, 好的…
in Spanish
ciruela, ciruela [feminine, singular]…
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ameixa, ameixa [feminine]…
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plomme [masculine], plomme…
بَرْقوق (مِصْر), خَوْخ (سوريا, عِنجاص (العِراق)…
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