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# olive

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

«olive» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#m1)
2. Olive oil is the oil made from olives. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#m2)
3. Olive (or olive green) is a dull yellowish-green colour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#m3)
4. An olive tree is the tree these fruits grow on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/#m4)

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

The olive was one of the good foods of the Land of Israel, and its oil was used for light, food, and anointing.

**Interpretation.** Olives are among the seven species praised for the Land of Israel. Tradition also sees the olive as a sign of peace, from the dove's olive leaf in Noah's story.

### Examples

- and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. (Torah EXO.30.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/olive/#x1)
- a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/olive/#x2)
- Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olives shall drop off. (Torah DEU.28.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/olive/#x3)
- And in the Sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high. (Prophets 1KI.6.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/olive/#x4)
- So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, within a frame four-square; (Prophets 1KI.6.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/olive/#x5)
- His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his fragrance as Lebanon. (Prophets HOS.14.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/olive/#x6)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «olive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«olive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/olive.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «olive» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/olive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«olive» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/olive.html) on Mova free.