almond

«almond» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: almond tree; almond blossom — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

almond tree; almond blossom

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Here it means the almond tree or its flower, not the nut. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "almond" means the nut you eat. In these sentences it means the tree or its blossoms, so the old sense is used.

examples

• And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof. (Torah EXO.25.34, JPS 1917) tree →
• "I flew beneath green palm-trees, and amidst the blooming almond-trees," sang the canary. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof; (Torah EXO.37.20, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

almond

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 16 (Torah 7, tales 9, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.8 (Torah alone 16.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.
• And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;
• Apples, almonds, strawberries and coffee all need pollinators.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «almond» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.