Usually means: Edible fruit from apple tree.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. apple: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apple: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apple: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apple, Apple, apple: Wordnik
  7. apple: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Apple: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Apple, apple: Wiktionary
  10. apple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. apple: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. apple: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Apple, apple: Dictionary.com
  14. apple: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. apple: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. APPLE, Apple (Fruit), Apple (album), Apple (artwork), Apple (automobile), Apple (band), Apple (company), Apple (disambiguation), Apple (fruit), Apple (name), Apple (symbolism), Apple (system on chip), Apple (technology company), Apple, The Apple (TOS episode): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Apple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. apple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. apple: Rhymezone
  20. apple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. apple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Apple: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Apple: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. apple: Free Dictionary
  25. apple: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. apple: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. apple: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. apple: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. apple: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  4. Apple: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. APPLE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Apple: Netlingo
  3. Apple: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  4. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  5. Apple (Computers), Apple (company), Apple (computer), Apple (fruit), Apple (tree), Apple ///, apple: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Apple (fruit), Apple (tree), apple: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Apple: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  3. APPLE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. apple: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Apple: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Apple: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  3. Apple: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Apple (offensive), Apple (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. apple, apple, apple, Apple: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. apple (core): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. A.P.P.L.E, apple, apple (core): Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Apple: Croquet

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Culinary Cafe (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
noun:  The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.
noun:  Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1).
noun:  (informal) The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling.
noun:  (geometry) The surface of revolution of a circular arc of an angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc's two endpoints.
noun:  (smoking) In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.
noun:  (obsolete, baseball, slang) In full old apple: a baseball.
noun:  (Christianity) According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit.
noun:  (obsolete, botany) Synonym of pome (“a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels”)
noun:  A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
noun:  Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”)
noun:  (by extension, slang)
noun:  (amateur radio) Synonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”)
noun:  (ice hockey) An assist.
noun:  (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To become like an apple.
verb:  (UK, dialectal, rare) To collect fir-cones.
verb:  (obsolete except UK, dialectal) Of a flower bud or vegetable (especially a root vegetable): to grow into the shape of an apple.
noun:  (with "the") A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.
noun:  (trademark) A company/corporation.
noun:  The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.
noun:  A multimedia corporation (Apple Corps) and record company (Apple Records) founded by the Beatles.
noun:  (rare, countable) A female given name from English.
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.
noun:  Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. [(anatomy) The lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence.]
noun:  Short for Adam's apple (“the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence”). [(anatomy) The lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence.]
noun:  Short for apple-green (“a bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple”). [A bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple.]
noun:  (historical) Short for apple of the eye (“the pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball”). [The pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball.]

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