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say it: AH-luhv
olive is a noun and adjective meaning "small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil". It is pronounced /ˈɑləv/ — AH-luhv. It carries 6 recorded senses.
small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits
hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork
one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish
a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation
of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for olive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.