LEMON
What does "LEMON" mean?
A yellow citrus fruit with sour, acidic juice, used widely in cooking and drinks.
Meanings
- The oval yellow citrus fruit with juicy, very sour pulp. She squeezed half a lemon over the grilled fish.
- The evergreen tree that bears this fruit. A lemon grew against the south wall of the courtyard.
- A product, especially a car, that is defective or unsatisfactory. The used sedan turned out to be a lemon that broke down twice in a month. informal
- Of a pale, bright yellow color. They painted the nursery a cheerful lemon yellow.
Did you know?
- George Akerlof's 1970 paper 'The Market for Lemons', which used the word for defective used cars, helped earn him a share of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Word origin
From Old French 'limon', from Arabic 'laymun' and Persian 'limun', a collective term for citrus fruits; entering English in the late 14th century.
Remember it
LEMON = 'L' for the lip-puckering 'EMON' you make when you bite one.
A little poem
Bright fist on the bough-
one bite and the whole mouth wakes,
sour as honest news.
haiku
Wordplay
- I bought a car shaped like a citrus fruit. When it broke down, the mechanic just nodded - he'd seen that lemon before.
What it teaches
Sour is just a flavor the patient learn to use; the impatient only learn to flinch.
Quick facts
What does LEMON mean?
A yellow citrus fruit with sour, acidic juice, used widely in cooking and drinks.
Is LEMON a valid word?
Yes — LEMON is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is LEMON?
LEMON has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does LEMON come from?
From Old French 'limon', from Arabic 'laymun' and Persian 'limun', a collective term for citrus fruits; entering English in the late 14th century.
What can LEMON teach us?
Sour is just a flavor the patient learn to use; the impatient only learn to flinch.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.