plum – English noun declension

English noun forms of plum

Noun: plum
Singularplum
Pluralplums

Sample Sentences

  • “Bright boy! here’s a plum for you,” and Polly threw a plump raisin into his mouth. [1870, Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl:]
  • Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a Christmas pie; he put in his thumb, and he took out a plum, and said, “What a good boy am I!” [1877, Mother Gooose’s Nursery Rhymes:]
  • He […] acquired a plentiful fortune, tho', to his infinite regret, he died before it amounted to a Plum […]. [1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.
  • Such chances as this do not fall to a man's lot twice; but Edmond Werdet relates a story very similar indeed, and where also the "plums" fell into the lap of a London dealer. [1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 52:]
  • As to Rev. Jerry [Falwell], he, of course, is "not anti-homosexual" but "anti-homosexuality." I guess that's his same bit of down home sophistry that explains that God listens to the prayers of Jews, if they are consciously praying to a Christian God, one of the Rev.'s latest dialectic plums. [1980 December 13, Ronnie Allen, “Anita's Latest”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 5:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Anatolianbor.
3. Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon)bor.
4. Latin prūnum
5. Vulgar Latin *prūmabor.
6. Proto-West Germanic *plūmā
7. Old English plūme
8. Middle English plomme
9. English plum
10. From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune. See: Middle English Nouns 'plomme', Old English Nouns 'plūme', Latin Nouns 'prūnum'.

Verbs referencing "plum"

Danish Nouns blomme, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns plomme.