Crossword-Solution: OLIVE 5 letters, 498 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Olive	n.	A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.
Olive	n.	The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.
Olive	n.	Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See Oliva.
Olive	n.	The oyster catcher.
Olive	n.	The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
Olive	n.	One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.
Olive	n.	An olivary body. See under Olivary.
Olive	n.	A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.
Olive	a.	Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
OLIVE	anagram	ILOVE, LEOIV, LEOVI, LOVIE, OVILE, VIOLE, VOILE

We have 498 clues for the answer “OLIVE”

Clue	Answers
"Drab" army color	1 answer
"Little Miss Sunshine" girl	1 answer
"The Other Reindeer" of kiddie lit	1 answer
"Wimmen is a Myskery" character	1 answer
"Woman and Labor" author Schreiner	1 answer
"You're Not Alone" trip hoppers	1 answer
"__ Kitteridge": Pulitzer winner by Elizabeth Strout	1 answer
"___ the other reindeer" (common mishearing of a Yuletide lyric)	1 answer
Martini garnish, often	1 answer
Brine-cured fruit often seen in a Martini	1 answer
A tree or its fruit.	1 answer
APPLE-like tree	1 answer
ATHENA, sacred tree of	1 answer
Al Badawi tree's fruit	1 answer
An oil producer	1 answer
Andalusian grove	1 answer
Animated Oyl	1 answer
Fruit often found in a martini glass	1 answer
Antipasto goodie	1 answer
Antipasto goody	1 answer
Antipasto ingredient, often	1 answer
Antipasto offering	1 answer
Antipasto option	1 answer
Antipasto piece	1 answer
Antipasto tidbit	1 answer
Athena's gift to Greece.	1 answer
Before-dinner tidbit	1 answer
Bitter tree fruit	1 answer
Bitter, pill-shaped food	1 answer
Black or green fruit	1 answer
Black or green pizza topping	1 answer
Bluto beset her	1 answer
Bluto's dream girl	1 answer
Branch needed for feuding bandmates	1 answer
Branch of pacifism	1 answer
Branch of peace	1 answer
Branch or oil	1 answer
Canape item.	1 answer
Castelvetrano, for one	1 answer
Castor Oyl's daughter	1 answer
Castor Oyl's sister	1 answer
Cocktail fillip.	1 answer
Cocktail-bar item	1 answer
Color akin to pistachio	1 answer
Common Greek fruit	1 answer
Common canapé.	1 answer
Small, salty snack from the Mediterranean	1 answer
Complexion shade.	1 answer
Cook's oil	1 answer
Cured orb	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERTEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with OLIVE (5)

Jupiter replied, “It is lest we should seem to covet the honor for the fruit.” But said Minerva, “Let anyone say what he will the olive is more dear to me on account of its fruit.” Then said Jupiter, “My daughter, you are rightly called wise; for unless what we do is useful, the glory of it is vain.” The Mother and the Wolf A FAMISHED WOLF was prowling about in the morning in search of food.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Long-suffering father, Oedipus, the towers That fence the city still are faint and far; But where we stand is surely holy ground; A wilderness of laurel, olive, vine; Within a choir or songster nightingales Are warbling.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

See there the olive-grove of Academe, Plato’s retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound Of bees’ industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing; there Ilissus rowls His whispering stream.

Paradise Regained John Milton 1993

West African exports included gold, ivory, hides, leather goods, cotton, peppercorn, olive oil, and cola.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

The greater number, instead of leaves, shot forth blades of capricious shapes, comprised within a scale of colours,—pink, carmine, green, olive, fawn, and brown.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Quotes with OLIVE (3)

Living is no laughing matter: You must take it seriously. So much so and to such a degreethat, for example, your hands tiedbehind your back, your back to the wallor else in a laboratoryin your white coat and safety glasses, you can die for people — even for people whose faces you’venever seen, even though you know livingis the most real, most beautifulthing. I mean, you must take living soseriouslythat even at seventy, for example, you’llplant olive trees — and not for your c…

Nazim Hikmet

Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH: A horrid ? monster has been [something] delay'dBy your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shade Below the garden... His mind's eye sees them quoted on the bottom third of a right-hand page in a (possibly) olive-bound book he read at least five years ago. When he does find them, it will be a great nuisance if no clue is given to their authorship.

Edward Gorey The Unstrung Harp

Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair, and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married." Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his mother detested — tipping his chair drunkenly on the back two legs — fell over. Colin Bridgerton started to choke. Luckily for Colin, Benedict regained his seat with enough time to smack him soundly on the back, sending a green olive sailing across the table. It narrowly missed Anthony's ear.

Julia Quinn The Viscount Who Loved Me

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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 931 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).