plumnoun [ C or U ]
uk/plʌm/us/plʌm/a small, round fruit with a thin, smooth, red, purple, or yellow skin, sweet, soft flesh, and a single large, hard seed:
plum jam
a plum tree
More examples
- purple plums
- These plums are a bit sour.
- Peaches, plums, dates, avocados, and olives all contain stones.
- She bit into a plum.
- plum crumble
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Types of fruit
- angelica
- apple
- avocado
- açaí
- banana
- cumquat
- currant
- damson
- dried fruit
- durian
- mango
- maraschino cherry
- melon
- mulberry
- navel orange
- satsuma
- satsuma plum
- sloe
- soft fruit
- starfruit
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plumadjective
uk/plʌm/us/plʌm/plum adjective (GOOD)
[ before noun ] plummer, plummest very good and worth having:
How did you manage to get such a plum job?
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Informal words for good
- A-OK
- ace
- amazeballs
- apple pie
- awesomesauce
- badass
- champion
- jim-dandy
- juicy
- killer
- knock
- knock spots off sth idiom
- magic
- rule
- serious
- smashing
- some
- splendiferous
- steal the show/scene idiom
- stupendous
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plum adjective (COLOUR)
also plum-coloured having a dark reddish-purple colour:
a plum-coloured dress
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Less common colours
- aquamarine
- azure
- beige
- blood red
- burgundy
- burnish
- cerulean
- chestnut
- chrome yellow
- earth colour
- ginger
- khaki
- magenta
- maroon
- ochre
- raw sienna
- ruddy
- russet
- sage green
- violet
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