How to pronounce“ripe”in English
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Definitions of “ripe”
Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
“ripe grain”
Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
“ripe cheese”
A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
“When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.”
To ripen or mature.
“[…] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […]”