garnet
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/
Audio (UK) (file)
Etymology 1
From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.
Noun
garnet (countable and uncountable, plural garnets)
- (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, 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.)
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- A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
- garnet:
Derived terms
- cross-garnet
- demantoid garnet
- garnet berry (red currant)
- garnet brown
- garnetiferous
- garnet yam
- garnierite
- gooseberry garnet
- mandarin garnet
- rose garnet
- tsavorite garnet
- YAG
- yttrium iron garnet
Related terms
- grenade
- pomegranate
Translations
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See also
- allochroite
- almandine
- andradite
- carbuncle
- cinnamon stone
- Colorado ruby
- demantoid
- essonite
- grossularite
- hessonite
- melanite
- ouvarovite
- pyrope
- rhodolite
- spessartine
- topazolite
- tsavorite
- uvarovite
Adjective
garnet
- Of a dark red colour.
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
Noun
garnet (plural garnets)
- (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
Derived terms
- clew-garnet
Verb
garnet (third-person singular simple present garnets, present participle garneting, simple past and past participle garneted)
- (transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.
Derived terms
- garneter
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
- Gretna, Tanger, argent, gerant
Cebuano
Etymology
From English garnet, from Middle English granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: gar‧net
Noun
garnet
- (mineralogy) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives
- a dark red color, like that of the gemstone
Adjective
garnet
- of a dark red colour
Danish
Noun
garnet n
- definite singular of garn
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
garnet n
- definite singular of garn
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
garnet n
- definite singular of garn
Swedish
Noun
garnet
- definite singular of garn.
Anagrams
- regnat