Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A clear hard variety of corundum used as a gemstone that is usually blue but may be any color except red.
- noun A corundum gem.
- noun The blue color of a gem sapphire.
- adjective Made of or resembling a gem sapphire.
- adjective Having the color of a blue sapphire.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A precious stone next in hardness to the diamond, and nearly as valuable when of fine quality: a variety of the mineral corundum.
- noun The color of the sapphire; blue.
- noun In heraldry, a tincture, the color blue, in blazoning by means of precious stones. Compare
blazon , n., 2. - noun In ornithology, a sapphirewing.
- Resembling sapphire; of a deep brilliant blue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.
- noun (Min.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem.
- noun The color of the gem; bright blue.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue.
- noun (Min.) a kind of sapphire which exhibits asterism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a clear deep blue variety of
corundum , valued as a precious stone. - noun a white, yellow, or purple variety of corundum, either clear or translucent.
- noun a deep
blue colour . - noun a type of South American
hummingbird . - adjective of a deep blue colour.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
- noun a light shade of blue
- noun a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone
- adjective of something having the color of a blue sapphire
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You will find me in sapphire, emerald, amethyst, ruby and gold colors.
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Amazon customers 'most-wished for gadgets included the Wii Fit and a mini notebook computer from Acer (the Aspire 8. 9-inch in sapphire blue).
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Instead of drab metal, the seats are comfortable L-shaped sofas in sapphire blue.
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They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground, --
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The "materia saphirorum" was evidently something precious, -- as precious as crude sapphires would have been, -- and the words imply beyond question that the artist asked for sapphires and that Suger paid for them; yet all specialists agree that the stone known as sapphire, if ground, could not produce translucent colour at all.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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The force has specialist units known as sapphire teams set up to investigate claims of rape and serious sex attacks.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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The word sapphire is derived from the Latin word "sapphirus", meaning blue.
We Blog A Lot 2008
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The word sapphire is derived from the Latin word "sapphirus", meaning blue.
We Blog A Lot 2008
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Mercurialis admires the emerald for its virtues in pacifying all affections of the mind; others the sapphire, which is the
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The sapphire was a dense, dark blue, virtually the same colour as her own eyes, she recognised in surprise as she studied it.
Unwanted Wedding Jordan, Penny 1995
kewpid commented on the word sapphire
Suggested replacement for “lesbian�? should the vexatious litigants of Lesbos win. see Sappho.
June 11, 2008
dontcry commented on the word sapphire
Genius!
June 11, 2008
reesetee commented on the word sapphire
I like it. It's all...jewel-y. :-)
June 12, 2008