Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A precious or semi-precious stone of green color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The emerald.

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  • noun obsolete An emerald

Etymologies

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From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smaragdos), μάραγδος (maragdos), from Semitic root b-r-q “to shoot lightning, to flash in darkness”, compare Hebrew בָּרֶקֶת (bareket) “emerald, flashing gem”, Akkadian barruktu.

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Examples

  • Under this dome was a canopy of brocede, reposing upon pillars of red gold and wrought with figures of birds whose feet were of smaragd, and beneath each bird was a network of fresh-hued pearls.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The walls were hung with cloth of silver, embroidered with gold figures, over which were worked pomegranates, polyanthuses, and passion-flowers, in ruby, amethyst, and smaragd.

    Burlesques 2006

  • The walls were hung with cloth of silver, embroidered with gold figures, over which were worked pomegranates, polyanthuses, and passion-flowers, in ruby, amethyst, and smaragd.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • The bodie of this vessell was all run ouer with a Vine, the stringes and vaines whereof, and small curling twists, were of Topas, farre better then is founde in the Ilande Ophiadis, the leaues of fine smaragd, and the braunches of Amethist, to the sight most beautifull, and to the vnderstanding woonderfull contemplable.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • This couer to the necke was made in skalie work of _Hyacinth_, except the vaynes of smaragd, for the little dragons, their bellies and feetes fastening to the skalie couer.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Under this dome was a canopy of brocede, reposing upon pillars of red gold and wrought with figures of birds whose feet were of smaragd, and beneath each bird was a network of fresh - hued pearls.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The walls were hung with cloth of silver, embroidered with gold figures, over which were worked pomegranates, polyanthuses, and passion-flowers, in ruby, amethyst, and smaragd.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • If I weren't doing this my red choice would probably be a Pinot Noir from Griottes Chambertin and my white would be an esoteric white from Austria, preferably a smaragd from Wachau.

    Chicagoist Carrie Becker 2010

  • Which is about what we found in our tasting of some 30 Gruner Veltliners from 2008 - mostly at basic ripeness quality levels (versus smaragd and other riper wines, which are still just arriving).

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • Which is about what we found in our tasting of some 30 Gruner Veltliners from 2008 - mostly at basic ripeness quality levels (versus smaragd and other riper wines, which are still just arriving).

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

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