Find your perfect word!

Definition emerald

Etymology

From Middle English emeraude, borrowed from Old French esmeraude, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, *smaraldus, *smaraudus, variant of Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), ???????? (máragdos), from a Semitic language. Compare Hebrew ????????‎ (bareket, “emerald, flashing gem”), Akkadian ??? (baraqu, literally “scintillation”), Arabic ?????‎ (barq, literally “flashing”), Egyptian bwyrq? (literally “to sparkle”):

and loanwords with Semitic etymon such as Sanskrit ???? (marakata) and Persian ????‎ (zomorrod) (whence Turkish zümrüt and Russian ???????? (izumrúd)).

Pronunciation

Adjective

emerald (comparative more emerald, superlative most emerald)

1. Of a rich green colour.

Noun

emerald (countable and uncountable, plural emeralds)

1. Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.
2. Emerald green, a colour.
3. Any hummingbird in the genera Chlorostilbon and Elvira; and some in the genus Amazilia
4. (dated, printing, Britain) A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.

Verb

emerald (third-person singular simple present emeralds, present participle emeralding, simple past and past participle emeralded)

1. (transitive, poetic) To ornament with, or as if with, emeralds; to make green.

Results 363 Words with the letters EMERALD

You can also try words with the phrase EMERALD, words starting with the letters EMERALD, or words ending in the letters EMERALD.

Favorites Searches

Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,

Some random searches: Words with the letters VSY, Words with the letters RPVFE, Words with the letters ZPO, Words with the letters VWWI,