Definition of fruit

"fruit" in the noun sense

1. fruit

the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

2. yield, fruit

an amount of a product

3. fruit

the consequence of some effort or action

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

"fruit" in the verb sense

1. fruit

cause to bear fruit

2. fruit

bear fruit

"the trees fruited early this year"

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Quotations for fruit

Liberty is a slow fruit. [ Emerson ]

Much bruit, little fruit. [ Proverb ]

Few leaves and bad fruit. [ Proverb ]

The ripest fruit first falls. [ William Shakespeare ]

Timely blossom, timely fruit. [ Proverb ]

Remorse is the fruit of crime. [ Juvenal ]

Flowers are the pledges of fruit. [ B. Bekker ]

Success is a fruit slow to ripen.

Fruit ripens not well in the shade. [ Proverb ]

Such as the tree such is the fruit. [ Proverb ]

When all fruit fails, welcome haws. [ Proverb ]

Grace is a plant, where'er it grows
Of pure and heavenly root;
But fairest in the youngest shows,
And yields the sweetest fruit. [ William Cowper ]

I would have the fruit, not the basket. [ Proverb ]

Then fill each hour with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below. [ Horatius Bonar ]

The ripest peach is highest on the tree. [ James Whitcomb Riley ]

No autumn fruit without spring blossoms. [ Proverb ]

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. [ Proverb ]

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. [ Lamartine ]

World's use is cold, world's love is vain.
World's cruelty is bitter bane
But pain is not the fruit of pain. [ E. B. Browning ]

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. [ William Shakespeare ]

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [ Rousseau ]

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit. [ Philemon ]

But the fruit that can fall without shaking.
Indeed is too mellow for me. [ Lady Montagu ]

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. [ William Shakespeare ]

Reason deceives us often, - conscience, never.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [ Jean J. Rousseau ]

Of no distemper, of no blast he died
But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long. [ Dryden ]

Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit. [ Proverb ]

Listen! O, listen!
Here ever hum the golden bees
Underneath full-blossomed trees.
At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned. [ Lowell ]

Words are like leaves, and when they most abound
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. [ Alexander Pope ]

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. [ Proverb ]

That life is long which answers life's great end;
The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name;
The man of wisdom is the man of years. [ Edward Young ]

Joy is an exchange.
Joy flies monopolies; it calls for two:
Rich fruit, heaven-planted, never plucked by one. [ Edward Young ]

Joy is an import; joy is an exchange;
Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two;
Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never plucked by one. [ Young ]

This is the fruit of craft:
Like him that shoots up high, looks for the shaft,
And finds it in his forehead. [ Middleton ]

Why does man hunger so much after forbidden fruit? [ Ovid ]

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop
Into thy mother's lap. [ Milton ]

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]

A tree is known better by its fruit than its leaves. [ Proverb ]

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit. [ Cudworth ]

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. [ Fielding ]

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch. [ Bruyere ]

There are many flowers from which no fruit is produced. [ Confucius ]

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty. [ A. Karr ]

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Having is in no case the fruit of lusting, but of living. [ Ed ]

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [ Vauvenargues ]

The juicy pear Lies, in a soft profusion, scattered round. [ Thompson ]

Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the airwoven children of light. [ Moleschott ]

He who plants a walnut tree expects not to eat of the fruit. [ Proverb ]

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. [ Beecher ]

A book like a grape-vine should have good fruit among its leaves. [ E. P. Day ]

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works. [ Whately ]

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. [ C. D. Warner ]

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. [ Herder ]

Next to ye both I love the palm, with his leaves of beauty, his fruit of balm. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. [ Jesus ]

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. [ Socrates ]

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. [ Sir J. Davies ]

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life; and all is seed, and all is fruit. [ Schiller ]

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit. [ Lady Blessington ]

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. [ Margaret Fuller ]

Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. [ Buddha ]

Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket. [ Chatfield ]

The words of men are like the leaves of trees; when they are too many they hinder the growth of the fruit. [ Steiger ]

Wisdom is the olive that springeth from the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions. [ Grymestone ]

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

We can take up no scheme, however wild and impracticable, but it will strike off some flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge. [ Ward Beecher ]

Vanity is the fruit of ignorance. It thieves most in subterranean places, never reached by the air of heaven, and the light of the sun. [ Hoss ]

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit. [ Seneca ]

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. [ Balzac ]

A principle fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. [ Lord Bacon ]

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Fortunately, in England at any rate, Education produces no effect whatsoever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, - they have torn me, and I bleed: I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. [ Byron ]

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. [ Herodotus ]

Our illusions fall one after the other like the parings of fruit: the fruit is experience; its savor may be bitter, still it contains something that strengthens. [ G. de Nerval ]

Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking. [ Fuller ]

God gives the mind, man makes the character. The mind is the garden, the character is the fruit; the mind is the white page, the character is the writing we put upon it. [ George S. Weaver ]

Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem, as you may see a grafted fruit-tree spreading over the stock which cannot keep pace with its evolutions. [ Holmes ]

Adam knew no disease so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit secured him. Nature was his physician; and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality. [ South ]

A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather. [ Shakespeare ]

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court. [ Rev. Dr. Guthrie ]

Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. And such is the attraction of this fruit, that the most honest woman is not content to die without having tasted it. [ O. Feuillet ]

The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, and philanthropy toward the misanthropic. [ Jean Paul ]

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. [ Bentham ]

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]

Let every mother consider herself as an instrument in the hands of Providence - let her reflect on the immense importance the proper education of one single family may eventually prove; and that, while the fruit of her labors may descend to generations yet unborn, she will herself reap a glorious reward. [ Miss Hamilton ]

Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people--the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. [ Carlyle ]

If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are, at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling. [ Sir H. Davy ]

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]

fruit in Scrabble®

The word fruit is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fruit:

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fruit in Words With Friends™

The word fruit is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of fruit

2 letter words in fruit (2 words)

3 letter words in fruit (4 words)

4 letter words in fruit (2 words)

5 letter words in fruit (1 word)

fruit + 1 blank (2 words)

Word Growth involving fruit

Shorter words in fruit

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Longer words containing fruit

berryfruit berryfruits

breadfruit breadfruits

fruitarian fruitarianism

fruitarian fruitarians

fruitbearing

fruitbowl fruitbowls

fruitcake fruitcakes

fruitcake fruitcakey

fruited

fruitfly

fruitful fruitfullest

fruitful fruitfully

fruitful fruitfulness unfruitfulness

fruitful overfruitful

fruitful unfruitful unfruitfulness

fruitgrower fruitgrowers

fruitgrowing

fruitier

fruitiest

fruitiness

fruiting nonfruiting

fruition fruitions

fruitless fruitlessly

fruitless fruitlessness

fruitlike

fruitmonger fruitmongered

fruitmonger fruitmongerer fruitmongerers

fruitmonger fruitmongeries

fruitmonger fruitmongering

fruitmonger fruitmongers

fruitmonger fruitmongery

fruits berryfruits

fruits breadfruits

fruits grapefruits

fruits jakfruits

fruits kiwifruits

fruits starfruits

fruitwood fruitwoods

fruitworm

fruity

grapefruit grapefruits

jakfruit jakfruits

kiwifruit kiwifruits

nonfruit nonfruiting

passionfruit

starfruit starfruits

stonefruit