CARNELIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carnelian mean? 

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

1. a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARNELIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

carnelian; cornelian

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

calcedony; chalcedony (a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz)

 Context examples 

Susie Perkins came to school today with a lovely red carnelian ring.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I didn't envy her then, for I felt that millions of carnelian rings wouldn't have made me happy after that.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One discovered that money couldn't keep shame and sorrow out of rich people's houses, another that, though she was poor, she was a great deal happier, with her youth, health, and good spirits, than a certain fretful, feeble old lady who couldn't enjoy her comforts, a third that, disagreeable as it was to help get dinner, it was harder still to go begging for it and the fourth, that even carnelian rings were not so valuable as good behavior.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)