garnet

See also: garnett

English

Garnet (1)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/

Etymology 1

From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”).

Noun

garnet (plural garnets)

  1. (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127:
      How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
    • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 128:
      Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
  2. A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
    garnet colour:  
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Adjective

garnet

  1. Of a dark red colour.
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Etymology 2

Noun

garnet (plural garnets)

  1. (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for garnet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English garnet, from Middle English granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: gar‧net

Noun

garnet

  1. (mineralogy) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives
  2. a dark red color, like that of the gemstone

Adjective

garnet

  1. of a dark red colour

Danish

Noun

garnet n

  1. singular definite of garn

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

garnet n

  1. definite singular of garn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

garnet n

  1. definite singular of garn

Swedish

Noun

garnet

  1. definite singular of garn
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