Synonyms for
Pumpkin
Definition
a large round orange-yellow fruit with a thick skin, pulp, and seeds, eaten as a vegetable or used to make pies
Synonyms & similar words
Common collocations
- pumpkin patch
- pumpkin pie
- carved pumpkin
- great pumpkin
- pumpkin spice
- sugar pumpkin
- pumpkin seeds
- pumpkin bread
Word family
noun pumpkin
Usage note
Pumpkin is primarily a noun referring to a type of squash. It is not typically used as a verb or adjective, though 'pumpkin-flavored' or 'pumpkin-colored' are common compound adjectives.
Example sentences
- I picked a big pumpkin from the pumpkin patch.
- My mom made a delicious pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.
- We carved funny faces into our pumpkins for Halloween.
- Pumpkins come in different sizes and colors.
- I roasted pumpkin seeds as a snack.
Quotes
In the garden, Autumn is indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?