jewel
IPA: dʒˈuʌɫ
noun
- 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.
verb
- To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
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Examples of "jewel" in Sentences
- He is the most devious jewel thief.
- The jewels belonged to the old lady.
- The fraternity jewel is the sapphire.
- The jewels were respledent and shiny.
- Front Street is the jewel of the city.
- His father was a jeweler and optician.
- Bharat was and is the jewel of the world.
- Alena is the keeper of the jewel of water.
- The unofficial sorority jewel is the pearl.
- Another jewel is the writing of Andrew Drilon in "White".
- The apprentice returned the socket of the jewel without the gems.
- 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.