grape

one of a number of small round green or purple fruits that grow together on a ↑vine. Grapes are often used for making wine:
a bunch of grapes
grape juice
red seedless grapes ⇨ sour grapes at ↑sour¹(5)
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THESAURUS
▪ grape one of a number of small round green or purple fruits that grow together on a ↑vine. Grapes are often used for making wine: I've brought you a bunch of grapes. | Different grape varieties produce wines of widely different character.
▪ vine (also grapevine) a plant that produces grapes: There are 2,000 acres of vines in England, compared with 2.6 million in France. | He left the grapes on the vine as long as possible — sometimes even late into October.
▪ vineyard a piece of land where grapevines are grown in order to produce wine: The wine is from one of Germany's most famous vineyards.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grape

grape [grape grapes] [ɡreɪp] [ɡreɪp] noun

a small green or purple fruit that grows in bunches on a climbing plant (called a vine). Wine is made from grapes
• a bunch of grapes
• black/white grapes (= grapes that are actually purple/green in colour)
• We picked grapes in the south of France last summer.
see sour grapes at sour _adj.
Word Origin:
Middle English (also in the Old French sense): from Old French, bunch of grapes, probably from graper ‘gather (grapes)’, from grap ‘hook’ (denoting an implement used in harvesting grapes), of Germanic origin.
Example Bank:
• The peasants used to tread the grapes in huge vats.

• lovely sweet grapes

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grape / ɡreɪp / noun

grape

A2 [ C ] a small round purple or pale green fruit that you can eat or make into wine:

black/white/red/green grapes

a bunch of grapes

seedless grapes

grape juice

the grape [ S ] humorous

wine

Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

grape

[gre͟ɪp]
grapes
1) N-COUNT Grapes are small green or dark purple fruit which grow in bunches. Grapes can be eaten raw, used for making wine, or dried.
2) PHRASE: usu v-link PHR, PHR after v If you describe someone's attitude as sour grapes, you mean that they say something is worthless or undesirable because they want it themselves but cannot have it.
These accusations have been going on for some time now, but it is just sour grapes.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grape

grape /ˈgreɪp/ noun, pl grapes [count] : a green, dark red, or purplish-black berry that is used to make wine or is eaten as a fruit
• a bunch of seedless grapes
- see color picture
- see also sour grapes

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