Definitions for Jewel

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Jewel jew·el

Spelling: [joo-uh l]

IPA: /ˈdʒu əl/

Jewel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in Jewel (eejlw).

Definitions for Jewel

noun

1. a cut and polished precious stone; gem.
2. a fashioned ornament for personal adornment, especially of a precious metal set with gems.
3. a precious possession.
4. a person or thing that is treasured, esteemed, or indispensable.
5. a durable bearing used in fine timepieces and other delicate instruments, made of natural or synthetic precious stone or other very hard material.
6. an ornamental boss of glass, sometimes cut with facets, in stained-glass work.
7. something resembling a jewel in appearance, ornamental effect, or the like, as a star.
8. a female given name.

verb (used with object)

1. to set or adorn with jewels.

Origin of Jewel

1250-1300; Middle English jouel juel Anglo-French jeul, Old French jouel, joel Vulgar Latin *jocāle plaything, noun use of neuter of *jocālis (adj.) of play, equivalent to Latin joc(us)

Examples for Jewel

He would prize the jewel, and overlook the inferiority of the casket.

For dinner, Sidney Street Café, the jewel in St. Louis' culinary crown.

Even good Bishop jewel did not disbelieve in the power of the evil eye.

The hot pants that Spears sports in this look are clearly the jewel of her hot pants collection.

She had a face of rare beauty and was the jewel of his love.

At first, jewel giggles at the thought of her own life being adapted into its own Lifetime movie.

There's my hand: I promise you, I'll never be called on to perform that, Honor, jewel.

“I remember telling her that she smelled nice,” jewel says of her interaction that night with June.

It is not well that such a jewel should be hidden in this grey casket.

He also praised new comedy Trophy Wife as a “jewel of a show.”