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Peach



Table of contents
1 Pronunciation
2 Etymology 1
3 Noun
4 Adjective
5 Etymology 2
6 Intransitive verb
7 Transitive verb

Pronunciation

  • AHD: pēch
  • IPA: /piːʧ/
  • SAMPA: /pi:tS/

Etymology 1

Middle English peche, from Old French a peach, from Latin persica (meaning 'from Persia'), from Greek persikē, from feminine of Persikos (meaning 'Persian'). See perse.

Noun

peach (plural peaches)

  1. A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica), widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
  2. The soft juicy fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured stone containing a single seed.
  3. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
  4. (Informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
  5. The large, edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.

Translations

Adjective

peach

  1. Of the color peach.
  2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Synonyms

Agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, rosy.

Antonyms

Disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant.

Etymology 2

Middle English pechen, from apechen (meaning 'to accuse') and empechen (same meaning), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicāre (meaning 'to entangle'). See impeach.

Intransitive verb

to peach (peached)

  1. (Obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.

Transitive verb

peach\ (peached)

  1. To inform against.

Synonyms

Sing, squeal, tattle.

Antonyms

Hide, keep secret.



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