Grape

Podcast 1 · Introduction

Grape

A documentary-style narration: origin, meaning, and feel.

Part of speech

noun

Pronunciation

grayp  /ɡreɪp/

Definition

A small, smooth-skinned berry, typically green, red, or purple, growing in clusters on a vine, eaten fresh or dried as raisins, and used to make wine.

Plain meaning

A grape is the small berry that grows in bunches on a vine — eaten fresh, dried into raisins, or pressed to make wine and grape juice.

Register

Neutral and widely used. Grape is everyday vocabulary across all registers. In wine contexts, it becomes technical — grape variety, single-vineyard, varietal expression. Sour grapes — the idiom from Aesop's fable — is one of the more embedded figurative uses.