jewel

IPA: dʒˈuʌɫ

A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.
(figuratively) Anything precious or valuable.
(horology) A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Hypochrysops.
(slang) The clitoris.
A female given name from English from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century.
A male given name from English, a variant of Jewell, or from "jewel" like the female name.

Examples of "jewel" in Sentences

Another jewel is the writing of Andrew Drilon in "White".
She remembered alabaster walls bedecked in jewel-framed portraits and detailed landscapes.
(Basic, but all very pretty; the first two are baby alpaca in jewel tones, and the headband is sari silk.)
III.i. 136 (378,7) [my in-cony Jew] [W. jewel] I know not whether it be fit, however specious, to change _Jew_ to _jewel_.
This was a book written in jewel tones, with silk and polished wood in high places and lacy spider webs and glowing lamps in low.
There, its crown jewel is the city of Hebron, first capital city of the Jewish people and where its patriarchs and matriarchs are buried.
Then the crowning jewel is that OHSU gets ONE dollar of every TWO dollars lobbied from the federal government to put into their own coffers per the SoWhat Agreement.