Synonyms for fruit
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. fruit

   Harvest, from the Anglo-Saxon, signified originally "autumn," and as that is the usual season of gathering ripened crops in Northern lands, the word came to its present meaning of the season of gathering ripened grain or fruits, whether summer or autumn, and hence a crop gathered or ready for gathering; also, the act or process of gathering a crop or crops. "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few," Luke x, 2. "Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest," John iv, 35. Harvest is the elegant and literary word; crop is the common and commercial expression; we say a man sells his crop, but we should not speak of his selling his harvest; we speak of an ample or abundant harvest, a good crop. Harvest is applied almost wholly to grain; crop applies to almost anything that is gathered in; we speak of the potato-crop, not the potato-harvest; we may say either the wheat-crop or the wheat-harvest. Produce is a collective word for all that is produced in farming or gardening, and is, in modern usage, almost wholly restricted to this sense; we speak of produce collectively, but of a product or various products; vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter, etc., may be termed farm-produce, or the products of the farm. Product is a word of wider application than produce; we speak of the products of manufacturing, the products of thought, or the product obtained by multiplying one number by another. The word proceeds is chiefly used of the return from an investment: we speak of the produce of a farm, but of the proceeds of the money invested in farming. The yield is what the land gives up to the farmer's demand; we speak of the return from an expenditure of money or labor, but of the yield of corn or oats. Harvest has also a figurative use, such as crop more rarely permits; we term a religious revival a harvest of souls; the result of lax enforcement of law is a harvest of crime. As regards time, harvest, harvest-tide, and harvest-time alike denote the period or season when the crops are or should be gathered (tide being simply the old Saxon word for time). Harvest-home ordinarily denotes the festival of harvest, and when used to denote simply the season always gives a suggestion of festivity and rejoicing, such as harvest and harvest-time by themselves do not express.

   Synonyms:
   crop, growth, harvest, harvest-feast, harvest-festival, harvest-home, harvest-tide, harvest-time, harvesting, increase, ingathering, proceeds, produce, product, reaping, result, return, yield

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. fruit

   Synonyms:
   production, outcome, outgrowth, result, consequence, produce, reward

   Antonyms:
   seed, origin, cause, growth, operation

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fruitnoun

   the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

   Synonyms:
   yield

2. yield, fruitnoun

   an amount of a product

   Synonyms:
   issue, take, return, output, yield, proceeds, payoff, takings, production

3. fruitverb

   the consequence of some effort or action

   "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"

   Synonyms:
   yield

4. fruitverb

   cause to bear fruit

5. fruitverb

   bear fruit

   "the trees fruited early this year"

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fruitnoun

   Synonyms:
   produce (of the earth for the supply of man and animals), harvest, crop

2. fruitnoun

   Synonyms:
   product, result, consequence, effect

3. fruitnoun

   Synonyms:
   offspring, issue, young

4. fruitnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) matured ovary

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. fruitnoun

   Synonyms:
   produce, harvest, crop, offspring, consequence, result, outcome, fruitage

2. fruitnoun

   Synonyms:
   fruitage, fruitery

   Associated words:
   pomology, pomona, pomologist, carpology, carpologist, carpophagous, drupe, carpomania, raceme, fructiferous, fructify, fructification, bletting, pulp, rind, orchard, nursery, pepinnery, fruitchafer, pomiculture, sarcocarp

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "fruit":

   fruits, obst, frutos, kwo, result, fruition, fruiting, figment, outcome

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1. James Allen:

   Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

2. Marcus Aurelius:

   Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

3. Janet Wojcicki:

   Whole fruit consists of fiber in addition to the vitamins present in the liquid or juice, and fiber we know is associated with a lower glycemic load than fruit juice, more and more health experts are concerned about the amount of sugar present in 100% fruit juice without the necessary fiber.

4. Brandon Auerbach:

   In terms of health benefits, children need at least 1 to 2 servings of fruit each day, and 100% fruit juice has lots of vitamins, minerals and nutrients like antioxidants, our study findings support the current guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics on 100% fruit juice consumption.

5. Alexander Hamilton:

   Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.