Apple

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See also: apple and äpple

English

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Etymology

From apple. As a surname, also an Americanized form of Appel or Apfel.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Apple (countable and uncountable, plural Apples)

  1. (with "the") A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.
  2. (trademark) A company/corporation.
    1. The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.
    2. A multimedia corporation (Apple Corps) and record company (Apple Records) founded by the Beatles.
      • 2016 March 13, “Encryption”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 5, via HBO:
        Listen, Apple’s not perfect. You need proof? We made the Newton. We made that one Mac that looks like a toaster. We actually thought the Apple Watch was cool.
        Wait, this isn’t cool?
        Oh, fuck no.
        Shit!
        We put a YouTube album on your phones. You know, the one you’ve been struggling to delete. That thing keeps coming back, huh? And we can’t even make out battery last more than, like, a day!
  3. (rare, countable) A female given name from English.
  4. (countable) A surname.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Apple (plural Apples)

  1. A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Apple is the 5,050th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,948 individuals. Apple is most common among White (89.45%) individuals.

References

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Apple”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 48.

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English apple.

Noun

Apple

  1. a female given name

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Apple.

Chinese

Etymology

From English Apple.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Apple

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)

Italian

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Apple.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Apple ?

  1. Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)

References

  1. ^ Apple in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Polish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Apple. Doublet of jabłko.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Apple m inan

  1. Apple (company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content)

Declension

Declension of Apple
singular
nominative Apple
genitive Apple'a
dative Apple'owi
accusative Apple
instrumental Apple'em
locative Apple'u
vocative Apple

Further reading

Portuguese

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Apple.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.pow/ , (usually proscribed, but common) /ˈej.pow/

Proper noun

Apple f

  1. Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)

Spanish

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Proper noun

Apple

  1. Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)
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