AZURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does azure mean? 

• AZURE (noun)
  The noun AZURE has 1 sense:

1. a light shade of blue

  Familiarity information: AZURE used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky

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

• AZURE (verb)
  The verb AZURE has 1 sense:

1. color azure

  Familiarity information: AZURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AZURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light shade of blue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

azure; cerulean; lazuline; sapphire; sky-blue

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

blue; blueness (blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime)

Derivation:

azure (color azure)

azure (of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky)

• AZURE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky

Synonyms:

azure; bright blue; cerulean; sky-blue

Context example:

October's bright blue weather

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

azure (a light shade of blue)

• AZURE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Color azure

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Morning azured the village

Hypernyms (to "azure" is one way to...):

color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

azure (a light shade of blue)

 Context examples 

Three martlets on a field azure, that must be one of the Luttrells.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Above, the sky is stainless blue—blue as the sea itself, which under the forefoot is of the colour and sheen of azure satin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A cytoplasmic granule found in the myelocyte lineage that can be stained with azure dyes.

(Azurophilic Granule, NCI Thesaurus)

I remember her appearance at the moment—it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue crape; a gauzy azure scarf was twisted in her hair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By contrast, the Neptune of our own solar system is a brilliant azure blue.

(Helium-Shrouded Planets May Be Common in Our Galaxy, NASA)

He saw no beauty in the sunshine sifting down through the green leaves, nor did the azure vault of the sky whisper as of old and hint of cosmic vastness and secrets trembling to disclosure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Argent,” Alleyne answered, “a fess azure charged with three lozenges dividing three mullets sable. Over all, on an escutcheon of the first, a jambe gules.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lady Lynn was a large and stout personage of about forty, very erect, very haughty-looking, richly dressed in a satin robe of changeful sheen: her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an azure plume, and within the circlet of a band of gems.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The eyes themselves were of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same; which runs through many shades and colourings like intershot silk in sunshine; which is grey, dark and light, and greenish-grey, and sometimes of the clear azure of the deep sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He did not know that he was himself possessed of unusual brain vigor; nor did he know that the persons who were given to probing the depths and to thinking ultimate thoughts were not to be found in the drawing rooms of the world's Morses; nor did he dream that such persons were as lonely eagles sailing solitary in the azure sky far above the earth and its swarming freight of gregarious life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)