Definition, synonyms and related words
plural of apple
"The old apple stairs in the garden were covered in frost last night."
Stairs. Clipping of apples and pears.
In plain English: Apples are round fruits with red, green, or yellow skin and sweet-tart flesh that you eat fresh or cook into pies.
"We bought some fresh apples to make pie for dinner."
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apple
"The third person does not use apples as a verb, so no natural example sentence exists for this grammatical definition."
In plain English: Apples is not actually a verb because it refers to the fruit, so there is no action defined for it.
"The two candidates were apples against each other during the debate because they had such similar policy views."
The word "apples" entered English through Cockney rhyming slang to mean stairs, derived from the phrase "apples and pears." In Australia, it similarly gained a meaning for being nice via the expressions "apples and spice" or "apples and rice."