Synonyms for diamonds
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dahy-muh nd, dahy-uh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaɪ mənd, ˈdaɪ ə- |
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Définition of diamonds
Origin :- early 14c., from Old French diamant, from Medieval Latin diamantem (nominative diamas), from Vulgar Latin *adiamantem (altered by influence of the many Greek words in dia-), from Latin adamantem (nominative adamans) "the hardest metal," later, "diamond" (see adamant). Playing card suit is from 1590s; Sense in baseball is American English, 1875.
- noun gemstone
- She was also afflicted with a high color, and a chronic eruption of diamonds.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Why not have detectives as guards—as if I wore a fortune in diamonds?
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- Her lamb had a fleece of diamonds, and her palm-branch had become the colour of heaven.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- He will go into a palace, where all the furniture will be of gold, encrusted in diamonds.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- They call my name Pluto; and I am the king of diamonds and all other precious stones.
- Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The mother of the sultan sent him a box, set with diamonds, valued at L1000.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- The king of Sardinia also wrote to him, and sent a gold box set with diamonds.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- From his general appearance and the size of his diamonds he ought to be your superior.
- Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
- He had gold and silver, diamonds and rubies, riches of every kind.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- And the diamonds—for they are diamonds, right enough—will go into his pocket, or on to his wife's neck.
- Extract from : « The Green Satin Gown » by Laura E. Richards
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