diamond
diamond Lexical Profile
diamond Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Made of, decorated with, or resembling a diamond.
"The queen appeared at the royal gala wearing a spectacular diamond tiara."
Designating a sixtieth (or sometimes seventy-fifth) anniversary.
"The university celebrated its diamond jubilee with a grand parade and a series of alumni events."
• noun
A precious stone consisting of a clear and typically colorless crystalline form of pure carbon, known as the hardest naturally occurring substance.
"She inherited a stunning gold necklace set with brilliant cut diamonds."
A figure with four straight sides of equal length forming two opposite acute angles and two opposite obtuse angles; a rhombus.
"The fabric featured a striking geometric pattern composed of interlocking triangles and diamonds."
A playing card of the suit conventionally marked with red, diamond-shaped symbols; in the plural, the suit itself.
"He confidently played the king of diamonds to win the final trick of the game."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old French 'diamant', derived via Late Latin 'diamas' (an alteration of 'adamas') from ancient Greek 'adamas', meaning 'unconquerable' or 'invincible', referring to the stone's exceptional hardness.
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