JEWELLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jeweller mean? 

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

1. someone who makes jewelry

2. someone in the business of selling jewelry

  Familiarity information: JEWELLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JEWELLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes jewelry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

jeweler; jeweller; jewelry maker

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

maker; shaper (a person who makes things)

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

gold-worker; goldsmith; goldworker (an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold)

silver-worker; silversmith; silverworker (someone who makes or repairs articles of silver)

Derivation:

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

jewel (adorn or decorate with precious stones)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone in the business of selling jewelry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

jeweler; jeweller

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

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

Derivation:

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

jewel (adorn or decorate with precious stones)

 Context examples 

It was a magnificent specimen of the jeweller’s art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I have ever seen.

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

When I measured Dora's finger for a ring that was to be made of Forget-me-nots, and when the jeweller, to whom I took the measure, found me out, and laughed over his order-book, and charged me anything he liked for the pretty little toy, with its blue stones—so associated in my remembrance with Dora's hand, that yesterday, when I saw such another, by chance, on the finger of my own daughter, there was a momentary stirring in my heart, like pain!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Glad was I to get him out of the silk warehouse, and then out of a jewellers shop: the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Almost unconsciously she had now undone the parcel he had just put into her hand, and seeing before her, in all the niceness of jewellers' packing, a plain gold chain, perfectly simple and neat, she could not help bursting forth again, Oh, this is beautiful indeed!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Chillip, looking mildly at my aunt with his head on one side, and making her a little bow, said, in allusion to the jewellers' cotton, as he softly touched his left ear: Some local irritation, ma'am?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Those allied powers were considerably astonished, when they arrived within a few minutes of each other, to find an unknown lady of portentous appearance, sitting before the fire, with her bonnet tied over her left arm, stopping her ears with jewellers' cotton.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Peggotty knowing nothing about her, and my mother saying nothing about her, she was quite a mystery in the parlour; and the fact of her having a magazine of jewellers' cotton in her pocket, and sticking the article in her ears in that way, did not detract from the solemnity of her presence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We look into the glittering windows of the jewellers' shops; and I show Sophy which of the diamond-eyed serpents, coiled up on white satin rising grounds, I would give her if I could afford it; and Sophy shows me which of the gold watches that are capped and jewelled and engine-turned, and possessed of the horizontal lever-escape-movement, and all sorts of things, she would buy for me if she could afford it; and we pick out the spoons and forks, fish-slices, butter-knives, and sugar-tongs, we should both prefer if we could both afford it; and really we go away as if we had got them!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)