Definitions for Amethyst

Amethyst am·e·thyst

Spelling: [am-uh-thist]
IPA: /ˈæm ə θɪst/

Amethyst is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 284 anagrams from letters in Amethyst (aehmstty).

Definitions for Amethyst

noun

  1. a purple or violet quartz, used as a gem.
  2. a purplish tint.

adjective

  1. having the color of amethyst.
  2. containing or set with an amethyst or amethysts:

Origin of Amethyst

1250-1300; Latin amethystus Greek améthystos not intoxicating, not intoxicated (so called from a belief that it prevented drunkenness), equivalent to a- a-6 +

Examples for Amethyst

The purpura, as mentioned in Pliny, was an amethyst or violet color.

High above, the sky was filled with clouds of rose and amber and amethyst.

It contained an amethyst necklace, an emerald pendant, and a diamond ring.

Thorvald with the amethyst of heavy Warlockian foliage at his back.

On the distant heights the gray deepened gradually to amethyst.

Azalea—then amethyst Kelly—was born in Sydney and moved to Miami when she was 16.

He wondered who had been inspired to dress her in that white and amethyst combination.

And sometimes there is an effect with which only the amethyst can be compared.

She had dropped the amethyst, by some incomprehensible mischance.

At her throat, she had a cameo, and on her left hand, an amethyst set in tiny pearls.

Word Value for Amethyst
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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