–adjective

1.	costing very little; 3e8 relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.

2.	costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap.

3.	charging low prices: a very cheap store.

4.	of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship.

5.	embarrassed; sheepish: He felt cheap about his mistake.

6.	obtainable at a low rate of interest: when money is cheap.

7.	of decreased value or purchasing power, as currency depreciated due to inflation.

8.	stingy; miserly: He's too cheap to buy his own brother a cup of coffee.

–adverb

9.	at a low price; at small cost: He is willing to sell cheap.

—Idioms

10.	cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive: I found this old chair for eight dollars—it would be cheap at twice the price.

11.	on the cheap, Informal. inexpensively; economically: She enjoys traveling on the cheap.

–noun

1.	the blossom of a plant.

2.	Botany. a. the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, esp. when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color. b. an analogous reproductive structure in other plants, as the mosses.

3.	a plant, considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated for its floral beauty.

4.	state of efflorescence or bloom: P 14f eonies were in flower.

5.	an ornament representing a flower.

6.	Also called f d46 leuron, floret. Printing. an ornamental piece of type, esp. a stylized floral design, often used in a line to decorate chapter headings, page borders, or bindings.

7.	an ornament or adornment.

8.	the finest or most flourishing period: Poetic drama was in flower in Elizabethan England.

9.	the best or finest member or part of a number, body, or whole: the flower of American youth.

10.	the finest or choicest product or example.

11.	flowers, (used with a singular verb) Chemistry. a substance in the form of a fine powder, esp. as obtained by sublimation: flowers of sulfur.

–verb (used without object)

12.	to produce flowers; blossom; come to full bloom.

13.	to come out into full development; mature.

–verb (used with object)

14.	to cover or deck with flowers.

15.	to decorate with a floral design.