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plum
(pl/@/m )

noun (n)

  • any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone(noun.plant)
    Synonym:
    plum tree
    source: wordnet30
  • any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit(noun.food)
    source: wordnet30
  • a highly desirable position or assignment(noun.act)
    Example:
    A political plum.
    source: wordnet30
  • The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.(noun)
    source: webster1913
  • Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.(noun)
    source: webster1913

adverb (r)

  • exactly(adv.all)
    Example:
    Fell plumb in the middle of the puddle.
    Synonym:
    flop, plumb, right
    source: wordnet30
  • completely; used as intensifiers(adv.all)
    Example:
    I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out.
    Synonym:
    clean, plumb
    source: wordnet30
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