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• an oval fleshy fruit which is purple, reddish, or yellow when ripe and contains a flattish pointed stone.

• the deciduous tree which bears plums.

• a reddish-purple colour.

• "a pure silk shirt in shades of cream and soft plum"

• a thing, typically a job, considered to be highly desirable.

• "he landed a plum assistant producer's job"

Similar: excellent, very good, wonderful, marvellous, choice, best, prize, first-class, great, terrific, cushy, plummy,

• variant spelling of plumb1.

• "the helicopter crashed plum on the cabins"

Origin: Old English plūme, from medieval Latin pruna, from Latin prunum (see prune1).

• have an accent thought typical of the English upper classes.
"an affable dilettante with a plum in his mouth"

• used to convey that something can be obtained with little or no effort.
"the country is likely to fall into the enemy's hands like a ripe plum"