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- [am-ber]
- /ˈæm bər/
- /ˈæm.bər/
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- [am-ber]
- /ˈæm bər/
Definitions of amber word
- uncountable noun amber Amber is a hard yellowish-brown substance used for making jewellery. 3
- colour amber Amber is used to describe things that are yellowish-brown in colour. 3
- colour amber An amber traffic light is orange. 3
- noun amber a yellow or yellowish-brown hard translucent fossil resin derived from extinct coniferous trees that occurs in Tertiary deposits and often contains trapped insects. It is used for jewellery, ornaments, etc 3
- noun amber (as modifier) 3
- noun amber a medium to dark brownish-yellow colour, often somewhat orange, similar to that of the resin 3
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Origin of amber
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English ambre < Old French < Medieval Latin ambra < Arabic ʿanbar ambergris; confusion of the dissimilar substances perhaps because both were rare, valuable, and found on seacoasts
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Parts of speech for Amber
noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
amber popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
amber usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for amber
adj amber
- brown — Something that is brown is the colour of earth or of wood.
- tan — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- golden — bright, metallic, or lustrous like gold; of the color of gold; yellow: golden hair.
- yellowish — somewhat yellow; tinged with yellow; yellowy.
noun amber
- bisque — a thick rich soup made from shellfish
- sand — George [jawrj;; French zhawrzh] /dʒɔrdʒ;; French ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant) 1804–76, French novelist.
- xanthous — yellow.
- creamer — Creamer is a white powder that is used in tea and coffee instead of milk.
- rosin — Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
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