Lemon

Quick meaning: Lemon is a noun meaning A yellowish citrus fruit.

Meaning

A yellowish citrus fruit.

More Meanings

1. A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
2. A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
3. (uncountable, rare) Lemon juice.
4. A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
5. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor.
6. (slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual.
7. (dated, fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.

Example Sentences

He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.

The fact that he is drinking lemon is, therefore, an image of the bitterness of his life.

The juice of Lemmons killeth Warts, but better the water of the ſame juice, diſtilled through a glaſs.

[J]uſt at the laſt ſcald four or five ſpoonfuls of thick new cream, with a few drops of lemon or vinegar, muſhrooms pickled do well, […]

Word Forms

• lemons
• lemoning
• lemoned

Synonyms for lemon

Depending on context, synonyms include bomb, smutfic, gamboge, maize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include maize, gamboge, limon, citric, citrus, citron.

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