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# olive

«olive» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small oval fruit, green or black, with a stone inside…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an olive, olives; olive, uncountable for colour/oil); adjective (olive — colour)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An olive is a small oval fruit, green or black, with a stone inside, that grows on olive trees and is eaten or pressed for oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#m1)

2) Olive oil is the oil made from olives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#m2)

3) Olive (or olive green) is a dull yellowish-green colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#m3)

4) An olive tree is the tree these fruits grow on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, olives grow in warm, dry places such as Greece, Italy and Spain. In stories and history, an olive branch is a sign of peace. Phrases: "olive oil", "olive branch" (an offer of peace), "olive skin".

### examples

- I like olives on my pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#x1)
- Cook the onions in olive oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#x2)
- Olive trees can live for hundreds of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#x3)
- She wore an olive-green coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#x4)
- He held out an olive branch and said sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#x5)
- Green olives and black olives come from the same tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#x6)
- They pronounced the olives good, and fresh that year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#x7)

### note

Countable for fruits: two olives. Begins with a vowel sound: "an olive". Green olives are picked before they are ripe; black ones are riper. Olives are bitter straight from the tree and must be treated before eating.

### In the corpora

- [Greeks sailed in triremes, fast warships with three rows of oars, and traded olive oil, wine and pottery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/16/)
- [The dove and the olive branch became symbols of peace and new beginnings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/10/)
- [and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.912/)
- [a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.254/)
- [And in the Sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.211/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «olive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.