cucumber

B1 Topic:Food & Drink

US /ˈkjuˌkʌmbɚ/ UK /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə/ See IPA manual

Freq #12712

Meanings

1

noun
A long green vegetable with a thin skin and crisp watery flesh, often eaten raw in salads.

She added sliced cucumber to the salad.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a long green vegetable with... cuke

Word family

Forms cucumbers

Derived forms cucumberadecucumberfishcucumberitacucumbertini

Related forms cucumiform

Common collocations

sea cucumber Noun + noun

Etymology

From Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin.

cucumer Middle English cocombre Old French cucumis Latin

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Topics

Food & Drink

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# cucumber

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈkjuˌkʌmbɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə/
**Frequency rank:** 12712

## Meanings
1. A long green vegetable with a thin skin and crisp watery flesh, often eaten raw in salads.

## Examples
- She added sliced cucumber to the salad.

## Derived Forms
- cucumberade
- cucumberfish
- cucumberita
- cucumbertini

## Related Forms
- cucumiform

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: cucumer
- Root: cocombre
- Root: cucumis

## Etymology
From Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin.

## AI Etymology
cucumber comes from Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin. The historical chain includes Middle English cucumer, Old French cocombre, Latin cucumis. The current sense is A long green vegetable with a thin skin and crisp watery flesh, often eaten raw in salads. English relatives and later formations include cucumberade, cucumberfish, cucumberita, cucumiform.

## Topics
- Food & Drink

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