RIPE


Meaning of RIPE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ raɪp ]

( riper, ripest)

1.

Ripe fruit or grain is fully grown and ready to eat.

Always choose firm, but ripe fruit.

...fields of ripe wheat.

ADJ

• ripe‧ness

Test the figs for ripeness.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

If a situation is ripe for a particular development or event, you mean that development or event is likely to happen soon.

Conditions were ripe for an outbreak of cholera...

ADJ : v-link ADJ for n / -ing

3.

If someone lives to a ripe old age , they live until they are very old.

He lived to the ripe old age of 95.

PHRASE : prep PHR

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