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Gem
Definitions
- 1 A ghost town in California.
- 2 A diminutive of the female given name Gemma.
- 3 An unincorporated community in Indiana.
- 4 A city in Kansas.
- 1 A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. countable, uncountable
"And on her head she wore a tyre of gold, Adornd with gemmes and owches wondrous fayre, Whose passing price vneath was to be told;"
- 2 A native or resident of the American state of Idaho.
- 3 Initialism of ground-effect machine. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 art highly prized for its beauty or perfection wordnet
- 5 Any precious or highly valued thing or person. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"She's an absolute gem."
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- 6 Acronym of Graphite-Epoxy Motor. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 7 a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry wordnet
- 8 Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. countable, uncountable
"a gem of wit"
- 9 a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan wordnet
- 10 A gemma or leaf bud. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"c. 1668, John Denham (translator), Of Old Age by Cato the Elder, Part 3, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy, London: H. Herringman, 4th edition, 1773, p. 35, Then from the Joynts of thy prolifick Stemm A swelling Knot is raised (call’d a Gemm)"
- 11 a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry wordnet
- 12 A geometrid moth of the species Orthonama obstipata. countable, uncountable
- 13 a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry wordnet
- 14 A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language. countable, uncountable
- 15 A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot. obsolete, uncommon, uncountable
- 16 A strong, dominating pitching performance. countable, uncountable
"2025, Associated Press, Crochet gets 1st career shutout and complete game as Red Sox beat Rays for 9th straight win by Associated Press, He didn’t walk a batter in his 100-pitch gem"
- 17 Internet content of good quality. Internet, countable, uncountable
- 1 To adorn with, or as if with, gems. transitive
"[T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.
Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.
From Gem State.
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