An excellent lapidary ſet theſe ſtones ſure, / Doe you mark their vvaters?
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Lapidary
//ˈlæpɪdəɹi//
Synonyms for "lapidary" (45 found)
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Noun(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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Related words (22)
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55 translations across 24 languages.
Bengali
1 entries- জহুরি noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
Burmese
1 entries- ပန်းရွဲ noun (field in which such a person works)
Catalan
2 entries- lapidari noun (field in which such a person works)
- lapidari noun (treatise on (precious) stones)
Czech
1 entries- lapidární adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
Esperanto
1 entries- lapidario noun (treatise on (precious) stones)
Finnish
4 entries- kiveen hakattu adj (of an inscription: engraved on stone)
- kivi adj (of or pertaining to stones in general)
- lapidaarinen adj (of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them)
- ytimekäs ja hienostunut adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
French
4 entries- lapidaire adj (of an inscription: engraved on stone)
- lapidaire adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
- lapidaire adj (of or pertaining to stones in general)
- lapidaire noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
Georgian
1 entries- ლაპიდარული adj (of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them)
German
3 entries- lapidar adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
- Edelsteinschleifer noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
- Edelsteinschleiferin noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
Irish
1 entries- greanta adj (of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them)
Italian
3 entries- intagliatore noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
- intagliatrice noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
- lapidari noun (treatise on (precious) stones)
Japanese
1 entries- 宝石彫刻師 noun (field in which such a person works)
Latin
1 entries- lapidārium noun (treatise on (precious) stones)
Macedonian
1 entries- јувелир noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- جواهرجی noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
Polish
3 entries- lapidarny adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
- zwięzły adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
- lapidarium noun (treatise on (precious) stones)
Portuguese
2 entries- lapidária noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
- lapidário noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
Romanian
1 entries- lapidariu noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
Russian
1 entries- лапидарий noun (treatise on (precious) stones)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- jezgròvit adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
- kràtak adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
- lȁpidāran adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
- sȁžēt adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
Spanish
4 entries- lapidario adj (of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them)
- lapidario adj (of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments)
- lapidario noun (field in which such a person works)
- lapidario noun (treatise on (precious) stones)
Telugu
1 entries- మణికారుడు noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
Turkish
1 entries- cevahirci noun (person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones)
Ukrainian
2 entries- лапіда́рний noun (treatise on (precious) stones)
- лапіда́рність noun (treatise on (precious) stones)
Sample sentences
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[T]he method of eſtimating diamonds is altogether arbitrary; and Ratchkali, vvho vvas an exquiſite lapidary, had ſet it in ſuch a manner as vvould have impoſed upon any ordinary jevveller.
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In the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones. […] Diamonds are now almost exclusively polished by diamond cutting specialists, and all the other gemstones are cut and polished by lapidaries.
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Yet as naked as at the firſt bluſh it [the work] ſeemeth, if it ſhall ſtande wyth your Honour his pleaſure (whome I take to be an experte Lapidarie) at vacant houres to inſearche it, you ſhall finde therein ſtones of ſuch eſtimatiõ, as are woorthy to be coucht in riche and precious collets.
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