Peach

Quick meaning: Peach is a noun meaning (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.

Meaning

(uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.

More Meanings

1. (countable, informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
2. (euphemestic, often in plural) Buttock or bottom.
3. Of or pertaining to the color peach.
4. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
6. (countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
7. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Example Sentences

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach? / I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

Boiling water or steam loosens the peel of very ripe peaches, especially freestone or melting-flesh types, in 10–30 sec.

When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes.

Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit.

Word Forms

• peaches
• peaching
• peached

Synonyms for peach

Depending on context, synonyms include agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, peachy, rosy.

Antonyms for peach

Common opposites include disagreeable, foul, ugly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apricot, grass, dish, stag, rat, shit.

Related Dictionary Tools