grape | ɡreɪp |
noun
1 a berry (typically green, purple, or black) growing in clusters on a grapevine, eaten as fruit and used in making wine.
• (the grape) informal wine: an exploration of the grape.
2 short for grapeshot.
DERIVATIVES
grapey (also grapy) adjective (grapier, grapiest)
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.
