AMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amber mean? 

• AMBER (noun)
  The noun AMBER has 2 senses:

1. a deep yellow color

2. a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry

  Familiarity information: AMBER used as a noun is rare.

• AMBER (adjective)
  The adjective AMBER has 1 sense:

1. of a medium to dark brownish yellow color

  Familiarity information: AMBER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deep yellow color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

amber; gold

Context example:

he admired the gold of her hair

Hypernyms ("amber" is a kind of...):

yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)

Derivation:

amber (of a medium to dark brownish yellow color)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("amber" is a kind of...):

natural resin (a plant exudate)

• AMBER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a medium to dark brownish yellow color

Synonyms:

amber; brownish-yellow; yellow-brown

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

amber (a deep yellow color)

 Context examples 

The amber piece already was slated to become jewelry, as it also contains well preserved plant material.

(Dinosaur Tail Found in Myanmar, VOA News)

An international team of researchers announced on Thursday they have found the tail of a juvenile dinosaur preserved in amber — with its feathers still attached.

(Scientists find dinosaur feathers preserved in amber, Wikinews)

A dark amber to dark brown colored, halogenated liquid with a pungent odor.

(Dibromochloropropane, NCI Thesaurus)

Amber Rice, an evolutionary biologist at Lehigh, studies hybridization — when separate species come into contact and mate — to better understand how species originate and how the existing, parent species are maintained.

(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)

Then he has bitten through his amber.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No,—I exaggerate; I never thought there was any consecrating virtue about her: it was rather a sort of pastille perfume she had left; a scent of musk and amber, than an odour of sanctity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So, alternately beating and beaten, they made their dolorous way through the beautiful woods and under the amber arches of the fading beech-trees, where the calm strength and majesty of Nature might serve to rebuke the foolish energies and misspent strivings of mankind.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was but a short walk, and yet it took us some time, for my uncle stalked along with great dignity, his lace-bordered handkerchief in one hand, and his cane with the clouded amber head dangling from the other.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had obtained a large ordnance map of the neighbourhood, and this he brought into my room, where he laid it out on the bed, and, having balanced the lamp in the middle of it, he began to smoke over it, and occasionally to point out objects of interest with the reeking amber of his pipe.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To her the cares were sometimes almost beyond the happiness; for young and inexperienced, with small means of choice and no confidence in her own taste, the how she should be dressed was a point of painful solicitude; and the almost solitary ornament in her possession, a very pretty amber cross which William had brought her from Sicily, was the greatest distress of all, for she had nothing but a bit of ribbon to fasten it to; and though she had worn it in that manner once, would it be allowable at such a time in the midst of all the rich ornaments which she supposed all the other young ladies would appear in?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)