NECKLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does necklace mean? 

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

1. jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NECKLACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("necklace" 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 "necklace"):

pendant; pendent (an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring))

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

chain; strand; string (a necklace made by stringing objects together)

chain (a linked or connected series of objects)

choker; collar; dog collar; neckband (necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck)

 Context examples 

Do you mean, then, that your brother knew of the necklace beforehand?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In seeking these articles, I encountered the beads of a pearl necklace Mr. Rochester had forced me to accept a few days ago.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

DNA and RNA are polymers comprised of many nucleotides, strung together like beads in a necklace.

(Nucleotide, NCI Dictionary)

I like the diamonds best, but there is no necklace among them, and I'm fond of necklaces, they are so becoming.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

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)

Researchers have hypothesized that versatility in protein function is achievable by stringing together well-folded proteins with IDPs—rather like pearl necklaces.

(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The pearl necklace and bracelets which I inherited from mama, have been disposed of for less than half their value; and the set of coral, which was the wedding gift of my papa, has been actually thrown away for nothing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here the gray walked in first, beckoning me to attend: I waited in the second room, and got ready my presents for the master and mistress of the house; they were two knives, three bracelets of false pearls, a small looking-glass, and a bead necklace.

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

My necklace, replied the maiden.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

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)