OLIVE
What does "OLIVE" mean?
A small oval fruit of the olive tree, eaten or pressed for oil, and the tree that bears it.
Meanings
- The small bitter fruit of the Mediterranean olive tree, eaten cured or pressed for oil. She dropped two olives into the cocktail and saved one to eat.
- The evergreen tree, Olea europaea, that produces this fruit. Some olives in the grove were said to be over a thousand years old.
- A dull yellowish-green colour, named after the unripe fruit. He wore an olive jacket that blended into the brush.
- A branch of the olive tree as a symbol of peace, as in 'extend an olive branch'. After the argument she extended an olive branch and offered to talk. figurative
Did you know?
- The word 'oil' is the olive's child: it descends from the Greek word for olive oil, because for the ancient Mediterranean world, olive oil simply was oil, with no other kind common enough to need its own name.
Word origin
From Latin 'oliva', borrowed from Greek 'elaia', the olive tree and its fruit; the same root gives us 'oil', since olive oil was the original 'oil'.
Remember it
OLIVE and OIL share their first two letters and their origin - the olive was the first oil.
A little poem
Bitter on the branch,
patient under salt and stone-
then it offers peace.
haiku
What it teaches
The olive teaches the long game: too bitter to eat raw, it rewards only those willing to cure and wait.
Quick facts
What does OLIVE mean?
A small oval fruit of the olive tree, eaten or pressed for oil, and the tree that bears it.
Is OLIVE a valid word?
Yes — OLIVE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is OLIVE?
OLIVE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does OLIVE come from?
From Latin 'oliva', borrowed from Greek 'elaia', the olive tree and its fruit; the same root gives us 'oil', since olive oil was the original 'oil'.
What can OLIVE teach us?
The olive teaches the long game: too bitter to eat raw, it rewards only those willing to cure and wait.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.