diamond

Meanings

Plural: diamonds

Noun

• a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
• very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
• a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
• a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it
  • "he led a small diamond"
  • "diamonds were trumps"
• the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate
• the baseball playing field
• A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
• A gemstone made from this mineral.
• A diamond ring.
• A very pale blue color.
• Sable, when blazoning by precious stones.
• Something that resembles a diamond.
• A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.
• The polyiamond made up of two triangles.
• The entire field of play used in the game.
• The infield of a baseball field.
• A card of the diamonds suit.
• A town square.
• The size of type between brilliant and pearl, standardized as 4+¹⁄₂-point.

Adj

• Made of, or containing diamond, a diamond or diamonds.
• Of, relating to, or being a sixtieth anniversary.
• Of, relating to, or being a seventy-fifth anniversary.
• First-rate; excellent.

Verb

• To adorn with or as if with diamonds.

Synonyms

2-iamond, adamant, ball field, baseball diamond, baseball field, diamantine, infield, lozenge, rhomb, rhombus, sparkler

Antonyms

outfield

Related Words

argyle, brifka, carbonado, demantoid, diamante, diamantine, paragon, rhinestone, shlenter

Anagrams of diamond