jewel

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry
    a person who is a brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry
  • Verb:
    adorn or decorate with precious stones

Word Origin

jewel
jewel: [13] Originally, jewel meant ‘costly adornment made from precious stones or metals’ – a sense now largely restricted to the collective form jewellery [14]. The main modern sense ‘gem’ emerged towards the end of the 16th century. The word comes from Anglo-Norman juel, but exactly where that came from is not known for certain. It is generally assumed to be a derivative of jeu ‘game’, which came from Latin jocus (source of English jocular, joke, etc).=> jeopardy, jocular, joke
jewel (n.)
late 13c., "article of value used for adornment," from Anglo-French juel, Old French jouel "ornament, jewel" (12c.), perhaps from Medieval Latin jocale, from Latin jocus "pastime, sport," in Vulgar Latin "that which causes joy" (see joke (n.)). Another theory traces it to Latin gaudium, also with a notion of "rejoice" (see joy). Sense of "precious stone" developed early 14c. Meaning "beloved person, admired woman" is late 14c. Colloquial family jewels "testicles" is from 1920s, but jewel as "testicle" dates to late 15c.

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Example

1. It 's like making a tiny little jewel .
2. Ucu is a jewel in ukraine 's educational system .
3. But aia is the crown jewel .
4. Apollo 16 's charlie duke describes earth as " hanging in space like a jewel " .
5. The jewel is the $ 4.7 billion grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile .

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