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Grape

Food And Drink
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A clustered fruit associated with harvest, pleasure, and transformation into drink. It often symbolizes abundance, fertility, or celebration.

Detailed Definition
Grapes bring vineyards, late summer, and communal harvest into poetic language. Their clustered form can represent plenty, kinship, or the close gathering of people and memories, while their pressing into juice or wine suggests change through pressure and time. In religious and classical poetry, grapes may also carry sacramental or ecstatic meanings. A single grape can be delicate and transient; a full vine can become an emblem of cultivated abundance and shared joy.
Example
Example in poetry:
In "Ode to a Nightingale," Keats imagines "beaded bubbles winking at the brim," linking grapes and wine to imaginative release; "The grapes hung heavy as purple bells" uses simile to make a vineyard musical; "One grape burst between his teeth, sour with rain" combines taste and weather in a compact image; A poet may use crushed grapes and stained hands to suggest labor, celebration, or the cost of making art
Additional Notes
Grape often points beyond the fruit itself toward vineyards, wine, and harvest festivals. A cluster can symbolize communal plenty, while crushed grapes may emphasize transformation, labor, sacrifice, or pleasure made from nature.
Also Known As
Vine Fruit Wine Grape Grapevine Berry Vineyard Fruit
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