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gem

noun

art highly prized for its beauty or perfection

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Word Facts

Word length
3
Starts with
G
Ends with
M
Contains
E
Scrabble score
6
CEFR level
C1

How it sounds

Pronunciation

d͡ʒɛm

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Meaning

Definitions

noun

  1. art highly prized for its beauty or perfection

noun

  1. a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry

noun

  1. a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan

noun

  1. a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry

noun

  1. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

    “he had the gem set in a ring for his wife”

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Example Sentences

he had the gem set in a ring for his wife
she had jewels made of all the rarest stones

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