EMERALD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emerald mean? 

• EMERALD (noun)
  The noun EMERALD has 3 senses:

1. a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone

2. a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

3. the green color of an emerald

  Familiarity information: EMERALD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMERALD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

beryl (the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems)

transparent gem (a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

gem; jewel; precious stone (a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The green color of an emerald

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

green; greenness; viridity (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

 Context examples 

In the center of the roof was a great light, as bright as the sun, which made the emeralds sparkle in a wonderful manner.

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

Some weeks afterwards I learned incidentally that my friend spent a day at Windsor, whence he returned with a remarkably fine emerald tie-pin.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He slipped an emerald snake ring from his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand.

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

The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass.

(Green, NCI Thesaurus)

As we advanced and left the track, we trod a soft turf, mossy fine and emerald green, minutely enamelled with a tiny white flower, and spangled with a star-like yellow blossom: the hills, meantime, shut us quite in; for the glen, towards its head, wound to their very core.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Everything is grey—except the green grass, which seems like emerald amongst it; grey earthy rock; grey clouds, tinged with the sunburst at the far edge, hang over the grey sea, into which the sand-points stretch like grey fingers.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So the Scarecrow followed him and was admitted into the great Throne Room, where he saw, sitting in the emerald throne, a most lovely Lady.

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

He said no more; but I fancy that I could guess at that lady’s august name, and I have little doubt that the emerald pin will forever recall to my friend’s memory the adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun.

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

So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds.

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