Usually means: Mature and ready for use.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ripe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ripe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ripe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ripe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ripe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ripe, ripe: Wordnik
  7. ripe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ripe: Wiktionary
  9. ripe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ripe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ripe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ripe: Dictionary.com
  13. ripe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ripe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RIPE, Ripe (Ben Lee album), Ripe (album), Ripe (film), Ripe (wine), Ripe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ripe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ripe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ripe: Rhymezone
  19. ripe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ripe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ripe: Free Dictionary
  22. ripe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ripe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. ripe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ripe: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. ripe: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ripe: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. RIPE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. RIPE (Rseaux IP Europens): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. ripe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIPE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. ripe: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ripe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ripe: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See ripely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
adjective:  (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
adjective:  (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
adjective:  (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge. (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
adjective:  Ready for action or effect; prepared.
adjective:  Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
adjective:  (obsolete) Intoxicated.
adjective:  (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
adjective:  Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
noun:  (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
verb:  To ripen or mature
noun:  The bank of a river.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To search; to rummage.
adjective:  (proscribed, used with with) Rife
noun:  A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).

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