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Added 9 October 2026

grape

/ɡɹeɪp/ noun

In Latin: uva Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about grape at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.
Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.
Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
wild grape covering the back slope
Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible.
sea grape; tail grape

adjective

Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
Of a dark purplish red colour.

verb

To pick grapes.
Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.

noun

Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

Origin

Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced 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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