cerulean
pronunciation
How to pronounce cerulean in British English:
UK [sɪˈru:liən]
How to pronounce cerulean in American English:
US [səˈruliən]
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- Noun:
- a light shade of blue
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- Adjective:
- of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky
Word Origin
- cerulean (adj.)
- 1660s, with -an + Latin caeruleus "blue, dark blue, blue-green," perhaps dissimilated from caelulum, diminutive of caelum "heaven, sky," which is of uncertain origin (see celestial). The Latin word was applied by Roman authors to the sky, the Mediterranean, and occasionally to leaves or fields. As a noun, from 1756.
Example
- 1. Here 's a mental exercise : picture a tropical paradise lost in an endless expanse of cerulean ocean .
- 2. Cerulean glazed vases with carved design of flower and megranate ( two pieces )
- 3. In sense of practice , we should not only know the situation of human 's ability to love and the ways to cultivate it , but also understand the paradox in the free practice of love , with the purpose of experiencing a kind of cerulean beauty of free love .
- 4. Yet theirs seemed also a backward step into triviality , away from the thing that this cerulean day-munificent , broiling , burning across her freckled shoulders , hanging so heavily on her hands-ought to become , if only she knew better how to use it .
- 5. Dip an iron bar into the cerulean waters of the vitriol springs of modern-day slovakia , for example , and the artifact will emerge agleam with copper , as though the dull , dark particles of the original had been elementally reinvented .