Definitions for Beryl

Beryl ber·yl

Spelling: [ber-uh l]
IPA: /ˈbɛr əl/

Beryl is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Beryl (belry).

Definitions for Beryl

noun

  1. a mineral, beryllium aluminum silicate, Be 3 Al 2 Si 6 O 18 , usually green, but also blue, rose, white, and golden, and both opaque and transparent, the latter variety including the gems emerald and aquamarine: the principal ore of beryllium.
  2. a female given name.

Origin of Beryl

1275-1325; Middle English beril (Anglo-French) Late Latin bērillus, Latin bēryllus Greek bḗryllos

Examples for Beryl

Tires screeched in the driveway while beryl was still at the telephone.

"You've changed, Clyde," beryl was saying as she hugged him.

She was clinging to beryl so by this time as if she felt safe.

There were also golden and smoky topaz and beryl, in great profusion.

In “The Adventure of the beryl Coronet,” a banker is nearly deceived by his own niece to the tune of £50,000 and his good name.

Stern opened his gold case now and offered beryl a cigarette.

"Why, because they might be able to make it," beryl spoke up.

And there was a very pretty brush and comb put out for us—beryl's own.

Webster says the word pearl may be radically the same as beryl.

The girths of her saddle were of silk and the buckles were each one a beryl.

Word Value for Beryl
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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