Pronunciation

• AHD: pēch
• IPA: /piːʧ/
• SAMPA: /pi:tS/

Etymology 1

Middle English peche, from Old French a peach, from Latin persica (meaning 'from Persia'), from Greek persikē, from feminine of Persikos (meaning 'Persian'). See perse .

Noun

peach (plural peaches )

1. A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica), widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
2. The soft juicy fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
3. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
4. (Informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
5. The large, edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.

Translations

• Alabama: takkola (2)
• Breton: pechez collective noun pechezenn singular f
• Catalan: préssec m
• Chickasaw: takolo (2)
• Danish: fersken
• Dutch: perzik m (1,2) (f in Flemish (2)), perzikboom m
• French: pêche f
• Frisian: pjisk , perzik
• Galician: pexegueiro m (1), pexego m (2)
• German: Pfirsich m
• Greek: rodakino (Modern)
• Italian: pesco m (1), pesca f (2, 3)
• Latin: persica
• Neapolitan: pèrzeca (2), percòca (2), piérzeco (1,2)

  персик m (2)

• Spanish: melocotón m

Proper Noun

Peach

1. (Nintendo games) Princess Peach Toadstool .

Adjective

peach

1. Of the color peach.
2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Synonyms

Agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, rosy.

Antonyms

Disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant.

Etymology 2

Middle English pechen, from apechen (meaning 'to accuse') and empechen (same meaning), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicāre (meaning 'to entangle'). See impeach.

Intransitive verb

to peach (peached )

1. (Obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.

Transitive verb

peach (peached )

1. To inform against.

Synonyms

Sing, squeal, tattle.

Antonyms

• hide
• keep secret