peach
noun · adjective
Simple meaning
A soft pinkish-orange color.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
peechIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈpitʃ
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
A soft pinkish-orange color.
A shade of pink tinged with yellow
uncountable
A light yellow-red colour.
countableuncountable
Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
countableinformal
A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
adjective
Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
Of or pertaining to the color peach.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: a soft pinkish-orange color.
Used this way, peach is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use peach
- “I enjoy eating a juicy, ripe peach during the summer.”
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