grape

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small, round, smooth fruit that grows in bunches and is used to make wine and raisins.

   She picked a bunch of green grapes from the vine.

2. 2
   noun

   The climbing vine that produces grapes.

   Wild grape covered the back wall of the garden.

3. 3
   noun

   A dark purplish-red colour.

   The walls were painted a deep grape.

From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Displaced native Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.

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