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Plum has 12 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Adverb · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

"The old orchard was full of plum trees bearing ripe, sweet fruit in late summer."

2

any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit

"The gardener picked several ripe plums from the tree after they turned deep purple."

3

a highly desirable position or assignment

"a political plum"

4

The fruit and its tree.

"The gardener pruned the plum tree to encourage more fruit production next summer."

5

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.

"The gardener picked a ripe plum from the tree to eat its sweet flesh."

In plain English: A plum is a sweet, juicy fruit with smooth purple skin and soft flesh inside.

"She added fresh plums to her summer salad for a burst of sweet flavor."

Usage: Use the noun form to refer specifically to the sweet, juicy fruit with a hard pit inside. When describing color as an adjective, apply it only to shades resembling that ripe fruit's deep reddish-purple hue.

Verb
1

To plumb.

"The engineer used sonar to plumb the depth of the ocean trench."

Adjective
1

Of a dark bluish-red colour.

"The new skyscraper rises straight up to be perfectly plumb against the horizon."

2

Plumb

In plain English: When something is plum, it means it is completely full to the brim with no empty space left.

"The plum job comes with a high salary and great benefits."

Adverb
1

exactly

"fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"

2

completely; used as intensifiers

"clean forgot the appointment"

"I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"

3

Completely; utterly.

"The storm left us plum exhausted after hiking all day in the rain."

Proper Noun
1

A surname​.

"Mr. Plum was elected mayor last month."

Example Sentences
"The plum job comes with a high salary and great benefits." adj
"She added fresh plums to her summer salad for a burst of sweet flavor." noun
"She added fresh plums to the fruit salad for a sweet treat." noun
"The plum tree bloomed with purple flowers in early spring." noun
"He slipped on the wet floor and bruised his leg against the wooden plum." noun
See Also
stone fruit damson plum fruit prune greengage apricot utterly plumcot
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
fruit tree edible fruit drupe position
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
wild plum common plum bullace big-tree plum Canada plum cherry plum Japanese plum Sierra plum damson greengage beach plum sloe Victoria plum

Origin

The word plum comes from the Latin prūnum via Old English and Middle English. It originally referred to the fruit known today as a plum.

Rhyming Words
lum alum glum clum blum slum klum solum colum pilum filum hilum malum tulum calum gillum siglum pyelum pollum jhelum
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