plum
A plum is a sweet fruit with a hard seed (stone) inside.
A small, sweet, soft fruit with smooth skin and a single hard stone inside, often purple, red, yellow, or green when ripe.
A plum tree is a tree that grows plums.
A tree that produces plums.
Plum means a dark purple-red color.
Having a dark purplish-red color like that of many plums.
A plum is something very good that many people want, like a good job.
A very desirable or valuable opportunity, position, advantage, or reward.
Plum means very good and wanted by many people.
Very desirable, attractive, or advantageous, especially of a job, role, deal, or assignment.
In some informal speech, plum can mean completely.
Completely or entirely (used in some regional or informal varieties of English).
- Base: plum
- Plural: plum, plums
plum job
1a very desirable job
A plum job is a very good job that many people want.
- He finally landed a plum job at a top tech company.
- It’s a plum job, but the hours are long.
- Several people applied for the plum job in marketing.
- She got a plum job.
plum pudding
1traditional British steamed dessert
Plum pudding is a traditional British dessert, often eaten at Christmas.
- They served plum pudding with brandy butter after dinner.
- My grandmother makes plum pudding every Christmas.
- The recipe calls for dried fruit and spices for the plum pudding.
- We ate plum pudding at Christmas.
plum sauce
1sweet-and-sour dipping sauce
Plum sauce is a sweet sauce often eaten with some Chinese foods.
- We ordered crispy duck with pancakes and plum sauce.
- Dip the spring rolls in plum sauce.
- The restaurant served the dumplings with a side of plum sauce.
- I like plum sauce with duck.
plum tomato
1oval tomato used for cooking
A plum tomato is an oval tomato often used for cooking.
- Use plum tomatoes for a thicker pasta sauce.
- The recipe calls for two cans of whole plum tomatoes.
- She diced a few plum tomatoes for the stew.
- I bought canned plum tomatoes.
with a plum in your mouth
1in an affected posh way
If you speak with a plum in your mouth, you sound very posh in an unnatural way.
- He puts on a fake accent and talks with a plum in his mouth.
- Stop speaking with a plum in your mouth—just say it normally.
- In the sketch, everyone talks with a plum in their mouth to sound rich.