Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plum

3 senses of plum

Sense 1
plum, plum tree -- (any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone)
       => fruit tree -- (tree bearing edible fruit)

Sense 2
plum -- (any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit)
       => edible fruit -- (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
       => drupe, stone fruit -- (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)

Sense 3
plum -- (a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum")
       => position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation -- (a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury")

Synonyms of adv plum

2 senses of plum

Sense 1
plumb, plum -- (exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle")

Sense 2
clean, plumb, plum -- (completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out")