- a soft sweet fruit that is full of small seeds and often eaten dried
- a fig tree
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French figue, from Provençal fig(u)a, based on Latin ficus.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See fig in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarynot care/give a fig (for somebody/something)
- (old-fashioned, British English, informal) not to care at all about something; to think that something is not important
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