BRACELET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bracelet mean? 

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

1. a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist

2. jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration

  Familiarity information: BRACELET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRACELET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bracelet; watch bracelet; watchband; watchstrap; wristband

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

band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bangle; bracelet

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

jewellery; jewelry (an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems))

Meronyms (parts of "bracelet"):

clasp (a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bracelet"):

ankle bracelet; anklet (an ornament worn around the ankle)

armilla ((archeology) a bracelet worn around the wrist or arm)

 Context examples 

Darcy took up a book; Miss Bingley did the same; and Mrs. Hurst, principally occupied in playing with her bracelets and rings, joined now and then in her brother's conversation with Miss Bennet.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Thank you. It isn't what it should be, but you have improved it," he added, as she snapped the silver bracelet on her wrist.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He’s a young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on any criminal in London.

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

In return of which favour, I will make you a present of this knife and bracelet, taking them out of my pocket.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He looked at me: I happened to be near him, as I had been fastening the clasp of Mrs. Dent's bracelet, which had got loose.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Wear a medical alert bracelet or necklace, and carry an auto-injector device containing epinephrine (adrenaline).

(Food Allergy, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Finding they were determined to go, the Winkies gave Toto and the Lion each a golden collar; and to Dorothy they presented a beautiful bracelet studded with diamonds; and to the Scarecrow they gave a gold-headed walking stick, to keep him from stumbling; and to the Tin Woodman they offered a silver oil-can, inlaid with gold and set with precious jewels.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

They were dressed alike, but this sister wore her dress with a more youthful air than the other; and perhaps had a trifle more frill, or tucker, or brooch, or bracelet, or some little thing of that kind, which made her look more lively.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Finally one of them, an elderly man, with a necklace and bracelet of great lustrous glass beads and the skin of some beautiful mottled amber-colored animal slung over his shoulders, ran forward and embraced most tenderly the youth whom we had saved.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would, Lady Tiphaine, cried the Lady Rochefort, that you would use your power to tell me what hath befallen my golden bracelet which I wore when hawking upon the second Sunday of Advent, and have never set eyes upon since.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)