apple

• ap‧ple
• 1 [uncountable and countable] a hard round fruit that has red, light green, or yellow skin and is white inside:
• apple pie
• an apple tree
• roast pork and apple sauce (=a thick sauce made from cooked apples)
• 2

   be the apple of somebody's eye

  to be loved very much by someone:
• Ben was always the apple of his father's eye.
• 3

   bob/dunk/dip for apples

  to play a game in which you must use your teeth to pick up apples floating in water
• 4

   be as American as apple pie

  used to describe something that is typically American
• 5

   the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

  American English used to say that children are usually similar to their parents, especially in a bad way

• ➔ upset the apple cart

   at upset1 (4)

   ; ➔ a rotten apple

   atrotten1 (7), Adam's apple, Big Apple

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.