RIPENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ripened mean? 

• RIPENED (adjective)
  The adjective RIPENED has 1 sense:

1. of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; ('aged' pronounced as one syllable)

  Familiarity information: RIPENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIPENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; ('aged' pronounced as one syllable)

Synonyms:

aged; ripened

Context example:

mature well-aged cheeses

Similar:

mature; ripe (fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used)

 Context examples 

I watched them, Watson, and I picked them as they ripened.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This gave them time for each other that they had never had before, and their intimacy ripened fast.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I lived with that woman upstairs four years, and before that time she had tried me indeed: her character ripened and developed with frightful rapidity; her vices sprang up fast and rank: they were so strong, only cruelty could check them, and I would not use cruelty.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If she did so love me (I said) that she could take me for her husband, she could do so, on no deserving of mine, except upon the truth of my love for her, and the trouble in which it had ripened to be what it was; and hence it was that I revealed it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He stopped and looked at me, and said:—My friend John, when the corn is grown, even before it has ripened—while the milk of its mother-earth is in him, and the sunshine has not yet begun to paint him with his gold, the husbandman he pull the ear and rub him between his rough hands, and blow away the green chaff, and say to you: 'Look! he's good corn; he will make good crop when the time comes.'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr. Spenlow being a little drowsy after the champagne—honour to the soil that grew the grape, to the grape that made the wine, to the sun that ripened it, and to the merchant who adulterated it!—and being fast asleep in a corner of the carriage, I rode by the side and talked to Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)