Definitions for Diamond

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Diamond dia·mond

Spelling: [dahy-muh nd, dahy-uh-]

IPA: /ˈdaɪ mənd, ˈdaɪ ə-/

Diamond is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in Diamond (addimno).

Definitions for Diamond

noun

1. a pure or nearly pure, extremely hard form of carbon, naturally crystallized in the isometric system.
2. a piece of this stone.
3. a transparent, flawless or almost flawless piece of this stone, especially when cut and polished, valued as a precious gem.
4. a ring or other piece of jewelry containing such a precious stone, especially an engagement ring.
5. a piece of this stone used in a drill or cutting tool.
6. a tool provided with such an uncut stone, used for cutting glass.
7. crystallized carbon, or a piece of it, artificially produced.
8. an equilateral quadrilateral, especially as placed with its diagonals vertical and horizontal; a lozenge or rhombus.
9. any rhombus-shaped figure or object oriented with its diagonals vertical and horizontal.
10. a red rhombus-shaped figure on a playing card.
11. a card of the suit bearing such figures.
12. diamonds, (used with a singular or plural verb) the suit so marked:
13. Baseball. the space enclosed by home plate and the three bases; infield. the entire playing field.
14. Printing. a 4½-point type of a size between brilliant and pearl.
15. Neil, born 1941, U.S. singer and songwriter.
16. Cape, a hill in Canada, in S Quebec, on the St. Lawrence River.

Idioms

1. diamond in the rough, a person of fine character but lacking refined manners or graces.

adjective

1. made of or set with a diamond or diamonds.
2. having the shape of a diamond:
3. indicating the 75th, or sometimes the 60th, event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.

verb (used with object)

1. to adorn with or as if with diamonds.

Origin of Diamond

1275-1325; Middle English diamant Old French Vulgar Latin *diamant-, stem of *diamas, perhaps alteration of *adimas (> French aimant magnet, Old Provençal aziman diamond, magnet), for Lati

Examples for Diamond

Mr. Hartgold took up a diamond with a pair of pincers, and exhibited it to the banker.

Casa Bruja is a diamond in the rough, a refuge among all this bedlam.

Ostensibly they were a literary society; really they were diamond polishers.

He took his diamond cutting practice to the United States in 1949 and settled in Houston with his wife, Ann.

But they are striving “to shine bright like a diamond” and be happy, and we love them for it.

Her father, a diamond dealer, moved the family from Tel-Aviv to New York when Kalman was four.

The young lady there with the diamond collar and the wonderful eyes?

diamond Street, for instance, was one of the original players in the zoot suit riots in 1942.

So a king's ransom is what Benlli paid for his wife's diamond ring.

Mr. Carter said this at a venture, for he did not know which of the men had the diamond belt.