diamond
Plural: diamonds
Noun
- a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
- very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
- a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
- a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it
- "he led a small diamond"
- "diamonds were trumps"
- the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate
- the baseball playing field
- A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
- A gemstone made from this mineral.
- A diamond ring.
- A very pale blue color.
- Sable, when blazoning by precious stones.
- Something that resembles a diamond.
- A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.
- The polyiamond made up of two triangles.
- The entire field of play used in the game.
- The infield of a baseball field.
- A card of the diamonds suit.
- A town square.
- The size of type between brilliant and pearl, standardized as 4+¹⁄₂-point.
Adj
- Made of, or containing diamond, a diamond or diamonds.
- Of, relating to, or being a sixtieth anniversary.
- Of, relating to, or being a seventy-fifth anniversary.
- First-rate; excellent.
Verb
Verb Forms: diamonded, diamonding, diamonds
- To adorn or decorate with diamonds.
- To adorn with or as if with diamonds.
Examples
- He gave her diamond earrings.
- He wanted to DIAMOND his score with a triple-word bingo.
- He's a diamond geezer.
- I have only one diamond in my hand.
- synthetic diamond
- The dozen loose diamonds sparkled in the light.
- The saw is coated with diamond.
- The teams met on the diamond.
- Today is their diamond wedding anniversary.
- What a beautiful engagement diamond.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English dyamaunt, from Old French diamant, from Late Latin diamās, from Latin adamās, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “diamond”). Doublet of adamant. The printing sense is a calque of Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700; compare pearl, ruby (“size of type between pearl and nonpareil”).
Synonyms
adamant, ball field, baseball diamond, baseball field, infield, rhomb, rhombus, 2-iamond, diamantine, lozenge, sparkler
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
diamond: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddiamond: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
diamond: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary