[
UK
/plˈʌm/
]
[ US /ˈpɫəm/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫəm/ ]
NOUN
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
-
a highly desirable position or assignment
a political plum - any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
ADVERB
-
exactly
fell plumb in the middle of the puddle -
completely; used as intensifiers
I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out
clean forgot the appointment
How To Use plum In A Sentence
- Deefer took others off to see if there might not be a few plump wherries in the hills; they would make a nice change from the tough herdbeast meat, the supply of which was now virtually ex - hausted. Nerilka's Story
- A few plum accents can bring in a note of elegance to any room; try a throw pillow or two, or a plum lampshade with a fringe?
- Many scientists think that hotspots mark locations where diapiric convection cells, called mantle ‘plumes’, rise beneath lithospheric plates.
- The Bedroom In The Sky is three-quarters windowed and the last window blocked off with a hardboard offcut insulated, floored, plasterboarded, plumbed and wired. April 1st, 2007
- And when apriums - the babies of the pluots-plumcot family - hit the market, you can tuck them into a pillowy NPR Topics: News
- Polls show that support for a change has plummeted following the royal visits. Times, Sunday Times
- The glistening mushrooms were plump and earthy against the dry, crunchy pastry softened by the delicate, herby cream sauce.
- Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna.
- This is their winter plumage, and some of them are already in it. Times, Sunday Times
- For two days it had been snowing, great flakes so plume-like that they seemed almost artificial, making one think of the blizzards which originate high in theatre-flies under the sovereignty of a stage-hand who sweats at his task of controlling the elements. Then I'll Come Back to You