- a round fruit with shiny red or green skin that is fairly hard and white inside
- Peel and core the apples.
- an apple pie
- apple sauce/juice
- a garden with three apple trees
- I took a bite of the apple.
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda1- Add some sugar to the stewed apple—it's still a little tart.
- He just sat there munching on an apple.
- The apples were all bruised after being dropped on the floor.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- sweet
- sharp
- sour
- …
- bite into
- eat
- munch
- …
- crisp
- crumble
- pie
- …
Word OriginOld English æppel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch appel and German Apfel.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See apple in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe apple doesn’t fall/never falls far from the tree
- (saying, especially North American English) a child usually behaves in a similar way to his or her parent(s)
the apple of somebody’s eye
- a person or thing that is loved more than any other
- She is the apple of her father's eye.
apples and oranges
- (especially North American English) used to describe a situation in which two people or things are completely different from each other
- They really are apples and oranges.
- They are both great but you can't compare apples and oranges.
- It’s a totally different situation, it’s apples and oranges.
as American as apple pie
- used to say that something is typical of America
a bad/rotten apple
- one bad person who has a bad effect on others in a group
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