What does "peach" mean?
Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
Peach
/piːt͡ʃ/ adj, name, noun, verb, slang
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- Grammar: peach is listed as adj, name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: apricot, ace, apricot, apricot color.
- Useful contrasts: blue, boor, brute.
- Usage evidence: I love the taste when I bite into a juicy peach.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. countable
"I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list."
- 2 A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite. Cornwall, obsolete, uncountable
"Chlorite forms the characterizing ingredient in chlorite slate; it is common in Cornwall with the tin veins, constituting with quartz the rock commonly known there as killas; the ordinary name for chlorite is peach."
- 3 A native or resident of Georgia in the United States. US, informal
- 4 a shade of pink tinged with yellow wordnet
- 5 Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed. countable, uncountable
"[A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […]"
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- 6 downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh wordnet
- 7 A light yellow-red colour. uncountable
"To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor."
- 8 a very attractive or seductive looking woman wordnet
- 9 A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing. countable, informal
"How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?"
- 10 cultivated in temperate regions wordnet
- 11 Buttock or bottom. countable, often, plural, uncountable
"Down on the beaches, just look at all the peaches"
Verb
- 1 To inform on someone; turn informer. intransitive, obsolete
"If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this."
- 2 divulge confidential information or secrets wordnet
- 3 To inform against. obsolete, transitive
"Complaining of the conduct of Sir Ralph Robinson, parson of Brede, in Sussex, who took from him a psalter book in English, printed cum privilegio regali, and peached him of heresy, whereupon he was put in the stocks by the King's constable for two days."
Adjective
- 1 Of or pertaining to the color peach.
"Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason."
- 2 Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
"'That'll be just peach with me.'"
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A female given name.
- 3 The princess in the Mario franchise.
Example
"I love the taste when I bite into a juicy peach."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "peach"?
Common synonyms include: apricot, ace, apricot, apricot color, babble, babble.
How do you use "peach" in a sentence?
I love the taste when I bite into a juicy peach.
How do you pronounce "peach"?
Pronounced /piːt͡ʃ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogʒe, from Old English persoc, from the same Latin root above.
Etymology 2
From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.
Etymology 3
* As an English surname, from French péché (“sin”). Compare Peachey, Petch. * As a German surname, Americanized from Pietsch.