orange
- noun
- /ˈɔrɪndʒ/
- Do you want an apple or do you want an orange?
- orange juice
- peel an orange
- orange slices
Yes, I got that orange and guava.
- Yes, I got that orange and guava.
- So you know these oranges, not so bad.
- Yeah, but oranges are more useful to me.
- OK, Donald Trump looks like an orange, but he does.
Examples
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Her white satin dress was ruined, her trayful of oranges scattered and lost in the garbage.
Fiction book (1993) -
Every winter, he sent Ellen and me a crate of grapefruit and oranges from Boca Raton.
Fiction book (1992) -
Do you want your orange?
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Now tell me, when did you last see a woman cutting an orange?
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Yeah, but oranges are more useful to me.
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They're like really nice oranges, very pretty.
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And once she said, "Have you been eating oranges?" which I adamantly denied.
Fiction book (1993) -
Suppressing a smile, Cara reached for an orange and a square of paper towel.
Fiction book (1993) -
We also ate 19 pounds of apples, 13 pounds of oranges, and 4 pounds of strawberries.
Academic text (1996) -
For breakfast, I often enjoy a fresh orange with my toast.
Synonyms
A round fruit with sweet juice and orange skin
A sweet orange that is very juicy and often grown for juice
A sweet orange with thick skin and almost no seeds
A small, very sour orange used to make marmalade and flavoring
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
A strong chemical sprayed in the Vietnam War to kill plants that caused long-term harm to people and land
A Protestant group in Northern Ireland that holds yearly parades celebrating union with Britain
A sweet spread made from oranges with small pieces of peel for bread or toast
- Specialized
An orange paint colour artists use that stays bright for a long time
A frozen concentrate of orange juice that you mix with water before drinking
A tree that makes bitter oranges used as root for other orange trees and for marmalade
A small citrus tree from Italy with pear-shaped fruit whose oil flavors tea and perfumes
A type of orange tree that produces small sour fruit and is used for grafting and marmalade
An apple eaten fresh with yellow to orange skin that tastes sweet and smells nice
A small tree from Southeast Asia that grows sweet, easy-to-peel orange fruit
A small orange tree that makes sour fruit used for marmalade and to start new orange trees
- Specialized
An orange dye used in labs that changes color to show if a liquid is acidic or basic
A North American annual plant with yellow or orange flowers that grows in wet, acidic soil
- Australian
A small bat with orange fur that lives in forests in northwest Australia
A tall plant that lives for many years and has bright orange flowers that attract butterflies
A bog plant with spikes of orange-yellow flowers that grows in the southeastern United States
A former province in central South Africa settled by Dutch farmers, renamed Free State in 1997
- Offensive
An armed Protestant group in Northern Ireland that attacks Catholics and their property
A bright orange cup-shaped growth on the ground that looks like an orange peel
- Specialized
A small moth whose caterpillars feed on oranges and damage fruit crops
- NSFW
A Protestant armed group in Northern Ireland known for attacks on Catholic people and opposition to peace talks
- Australian
Small Australian orchid with loose groups of scented white flowers marked purple and orange
A large river in southern Africa that flows west to the Atlantic and forms part of the border with Namibia
A plant that lives for several years with drooping orange-yellow flowers that can make sheep sick
How Ripe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Orange for the fruit came to English from an old Asian name nāraṅga, brought west by traders, so the sweet citrus kept its original name.