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From Middle English dyamaunt, from Old French diamant, from Late Latin diamas, from Latin adamas, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “diamond”). Doublet of adamant. The printing sense is a calque of Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700; compare pearl, ruby (“size of type between pearl and nonpareil”).
diamond (countable and uncountable, plural diamonds)
- (uncountable) 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.
The saw is coated with diamond.
- A gemstone made from this mineral.
- Synonym: (informal) sparkler
The dozen loose diamonds sparkled in the light.
2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 June 2012, page 128:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
- A diamond ring.
What a beautiful engagement diamond.
- A very pale blue color.
diamond:
- (heraldry) Sable, when blazoning by precious stones.
1720, Francis Nichols, Rudiments of Honour, page 296:
Elphingston. Pearl a Chevron Diamond between three Boars Heads Eraz'd Ruby, arm'd of the first. / Eymouth. Diamond a Lyon Rampant Pearl, on a Canton of the 2d, a Cross Ruby.
1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim, page 504:
The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. The Armes of the most Noble and Puissant Lord, Edward Brabazon, Earl of Meath, and Baron of Atherdee in the Kingdom of Ireland. His Lordship's Atchievements are Quarterly of sixteen Coats. 1. Brabazon, as above. 2. Diamond, on a Chevron between three Pickaxes Pearl, as many Mullets Ruby, by the Name of Mosley. 3. Saphire, ten Bezants, 4, 3, 2, 1, by the Bisset.
1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 71:
Pearl, an Eagle, Diamond, between three Crosses Patee, Ruby, for Morrys.
- Something that resembles a diamond.
- Synonym: adamant
- (geometry) A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.
- (geometry) The polyiamond made up of two triangles.
- Synonym: 2-iamond
- (baseball) The entire field of play used in the game.
- Synonyms: ball field, baseball field
- (baseball) The infield of a baseball field.
- Synonyms: baseball diamond, infield
- Antonym: outfield
The teams met on the diamond.
- (card games) A card of the diamonds suit.
I have only one diamond in my hand.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A town square.
- (printing, dated) The size of type between brilliant and pearl, standardized as 41⁄2-point.
- accent diamond
- adamantine
- American diamond
- baseball diamond
- black diamond
- blood diamond
- Bristol diamond
- chocolate diamond
- conflict diamond
- deadly diamond of death
- diamond accent
- diamond anniversary
- diamond anvil cell
- diamondback
- diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella)
- diamond ball
- diamond beetle (Chrysolopus spectabilis)
- diamond bird (Pardalotus punctatus)
- diamond bracket
- diamond carry
- diamond cross
- diamond crossing
- diamond crossover
- diamond cut diamond
- diamond cutter
- diamond dove (Geopelia cuneata)
- diamond duck
- diamond dust
- diamond firetail (Stagonopleura guttata)
- diamond frame
- diamond geezer
- diamond grass (Calamagrostis brachyathera)
- diamond hands
- Diamond Head
- diamondiferous
- diamond in the rough
- diamond jubilee
- diamond junction
- Diamond Lake
- diamond lane
- diamond marimba
- diamond mortar
- diamond mullet (Planiliza alata)
- diamond number
- diamond open access
- diamond paste
- diamond planet
- diamond plate
- diamond poem
- diamond problem
- diamond python (Morelia spilota spilota)
- diamond ring effect
- diamonds are a girl's best friend
- diamonds are forever
- diamond saw
- diamond-shaped
- diamond-square algorithm
- diamond sturgeon
- diamond turbot (Hypsopsetta guttulata)
- diamond turning
- diamond twill
- Diamond Valley
- diamond-water paradox
- diamond wedding
- diamond wheel
- diamond willow (Salix spp.)
- double black diamond
- dreaded diamond
- fire diamond
- hyperdiamond
- industrial diamond
- Irish diamond
- Killiecrankie diamond
- Mach diamond
- Matura diamond
- nanodiamond
- pink diamond
- poor man's diamond
- pressure makes diamonds
- rose diamond
- rough diamond
- shock diamond
- table diamond, table-diamond
- thrust diamond
- tidal diamond
uncountable: mineral
- Abaza: алмаз (almaz)
- Abkhaz: алмас (almas)
- Afrikaans: diamant (af)
- Albanian: diamant (sq) m, padamar m, adham m
- Amharic: አልማዝ (ʾälmaz)
- Arabic: أَلْمَاس m (ʔalmās), مَاس m (mās)
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: ադամանդ (hy) (adamand), ալմաստ (hy) (almast)
- Assamese: হীৰা (hira)
- Asturian: diamante m
- Avar: алмас (almas)
- Azerbaijani: almaz (az)
- Bambara: lúulu, jaman
- Bashkir: алмас (almas) (uncut), гәүһәр (gəwhər), бриллиант (brilliant) (cut)
- Belarusian: алма́з m (almáz), дыяме́нт m (dyjamjént)
- Bengali: হীরা (bn) (hira)
- Bulgarian: диама́нт (bg) m (diamánt), елма́з (bg) m (elmáz)
- Burmese: စိန် (my) (cin)
- Catalan: diamant (ca) m
- Central Melanau: itan
- Cherokee: ᏅᏯ ᎤᏥᏍᏓᎷᎩᏍᎩ (nvya utsisdalugisgi)
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: tlacuāhuac tecpatl
- Cornish: adamant m
- Crimean Tatar: elmaz
- Czech: diamant (cs) m
- Danish: diamant (da) c
- Dutch: diamant (nl) n
- Esperanto: diamanto (eo)
- Estonian: teemant
- Faroese: diamantur m
- Finnish: timantti (fi)
- French: diamant (fr) m
- Friulian: diamant m
- Gagauz: almaz
- Galician: diamante (gl) m
- Georgian: ალმასი (ka) (almasi)
- German: Diamant (de) m
- Greek: διαμάντι (el) n (diamánti)
- Ancient: ἀδάμας m (adámas)
- Gujarati: હીરો (gu) m (hīro)
- Hausa: daimon (ha) m
- Hawaiian: kaimana
- Hebrew: יַהֲלוֹם (he) (yahalóm)
- Hiligaynon: batongmaidlak
- Hindi: हीरा (hi) m (hīrā), अलमास (hi) m (almās), वज्र (hi) m (vajra), डायमंड (hi) m (ḍāymaṇḍ)
- Hungarian: gyémánt (hu)
- Iban: intan
- Icelandic: demantur (is) n
- Indonesian: intan (id)
- Irish: diamant m, diamaint m pl
- Istriot: giamanto m
- Italian: diamante (it) m
- Japanese: 金剛石 (ja) (こんごうせき, kongōseki), ダイヤモンド (ja) (daiyamondo), ダイヤ (ja) (daiya)
- Kannada: ವಜ್ರ (kn) (vajra)
- Kashubian: diamańt m
- Kazakh: алмаз (almaz)
- Khmer: ពេជ្រ (km) (pɨc)
- Korean: 다이아몬드 (ko) (daiamondeu)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: алмаз (ky) (almaz)
- Ladino: diyamante m
- Lak: алмас (almas)
- Lao: ເພັດ (lo) (phet)
- Latin: adamas m
- Latvian: dimants m
- Lezgi: алмас (almas)
- Lithuanian: deimantas m
- Luxembourgish: Diamant m
- Macedonian: дијама́нт m (dijamánt)
- Malagasy: diamondra (mg)
- Malay: intan (ms), almas (ms)
- Malayalam: വജ്രം (ml) (vajraṁ)
- Maori: taimana
- Maranao: intan
- Marathi: हिरा m (hirā)
- Middle Persian: [script needed] (ʾlmʾs /almās/)
- Mongolian:
- Nepali: हिरा (hirā)
- Newar: हेरा (herā)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: diamant (oc) m
- Odia: ଡାଏମନ୍ (or) (ḍāeman)
- Ottoman Turkish: الماس (elmas)
- Papiamentu: djamanta
- Pashto: الماس (ps) m (almãs)
- Persian: الماس (fa) (almâs)
- Polish: diament (pl) m
- Portuguese: diamante (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਹੀਰਾ m (hīrā)
- Romagnol: diamânt m, giamânt m
- Romanian: diamant (ro) n
- Romansch: diamant m, diamànt m (Sutsilvan)
- Russian: алма́з (ru) m (almáz), диама́нт (ru) m (diamánt) (archaic), адама́нт (ru) m (adamánt) (archaic)
- S'gaw Karen: တၢ်မျၢ်ပလဲ (ta̱ mla̱ pa leh)
- Sanskrit: वज्रम् (sa) m (vajram), अविक (sa) n (avika), वज्र (sa) m (vajra)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: දියමන්ති (si) (diyamanti)
- Slovak: diamant (sk) m
- Slovene: diamánt (sl) m, démant m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: dejmant m
- Spanish: diamante (es) m, adamante (es) m
- Sranan Tongo: dyamanti
- Swahili: almasi (sw) class 9/10
- Swedish: diamant (sv) c
- Tabasaran: алмас (almas)
- Tagalog: diyamante
- Tajik: алмос (almos)
- Tamil: வைரம் (ta) (vairam)
- Tarantino: diamande
- Tatar: алмаз (almaz)
- Telugu: వజ్రం (te) (vajraṁ), వజ్రము (te) (vajramu)
- Thai: เพชร (th) (pét)
- Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ (rdo rje)
- Tigrinya: ኣልማዝ (ʾalmaz)
- Tok Pisin: daimen
- Turkish: elmas (tr)
- Turkmen: almaz (tk)
- Ukrainian: алма́з (uk) m (almáz), діама́нт m (diamánt)
- Urdu: ہیرا m (hīrā), الماس m (almās)
- Uyghur: ئالماس (almas)
- Uzbek: olmos (uz)
- Venetian: diamante (vec) m
- Vietnamese: kim cương (vi)
- Vilamovian: djēmyt m
- Welsh: diemwnt m
- West Frisian: diamant c
- Xhosa: idayimani
- Yiddish: דימענט m (diment)
- Zulu: idayimane class 5/6
gemstone
- Albanian: adham m, diamant (sq) m, brilant (sq) m,
- Arbëresh: padamar
- Arabic: مَاس m (mās), أَلْمَاسَة f (ʔalmāsa) (singulative), أَلْمَاس m (ʔalmās) (collective), مَاسَة f (māsa) (singulative)
- Armenian: ադամանդ (hy) (adamand), ալմաստ (hy) (almast)
- Azerbaijani: brilyant (az)
- Bashkir: алмас (almas)
- Belarusian: брылья́нт m (brylʹjánt), дыяме́нт m (dyjamjént)
- Bengali: হীরা (bn) (hira)
- Bulgarian: диама́нт (bg) m (diamánt), бриля́нт (bg) m (briljánt)
- Burmese: စိန် (my) (cin)
- Catalan: diamant (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: tlacuāhuac tecpatl
- Cornish: adamant
- Czech: diamant (cs) m
- Danish: diamant (da) c
- Dutch: diamant (nl) m
- Esperanto: diamanto (eo)
- Estonian: teemant
- Faroese: diamantur m
- Fijian: daimani
- Finnish: timantti (fi)
- French: diamant (fr) m
- Galician: diamante (gl) m
- Georgian: ბრილიანტი (brilianṭi), ანდამატი (ka) (andamaṭi)
- German: Diamant (de) m, Brillant (de) m
- Greek: διαμάντι (el) n (diamánti)
- Ancient: ἀδάμας m (adámas)
- Hebrew: יַהֲלוֹם (he) m (yahalom)
- Hindi: हीरा (hi) m (hīrā), अलमास (hi) m (almās), वज्र (hi) m (vajra), डायमंड (hi) m (ḍāymaṇḍ)
- Hungarian: gyémánt (hu)
- Icelandic: demantur (is) m
- Indonesian: berlian (id)
- Irish: diamant m
- Italian: diamante (it) m
- Japanese: ダイヤモンド (ja) (daiyamondo), ダイヤ (ja) (daiya), 金剛石 (ja) (こんごうせき, kongōseki), ギヤマン (ja) (giyaman) (historical)
- Kazakh: алмаз (almaz), алмас (almas)
- Khmer: ពេជ្រ (km) (pɨc)
- Korean: 다이아몬드 (ko) (daiamondeu)
- Kyrgyz: алмаз (ky) (almaz)
- Lao: ເພັດ (lo) (phet)
- Latin: adamas m, gemma adamantis f
- Latvian: dimants m
- Lithuanian: deimantas m
- Macedonian: дијама́нт m (dijamánt)
- Malay: intan (ms), almas (ms)
- Maltese: djamant
- Manchu: ᡦᠠᠯᡨᠠ (palta)
- Marathi: हिरा m (hirā)
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: óola niłtólí, óola niłtólí ílínígíí, tsé diichiłí
- Norwegian: diamant (no)
- Ottoman Turkish: الماس (elmas)
- Persian: الماس (fa) (almâs)
- Polish: diament (pl) m
- Portuguese: diamante (pt) m
- Romanian: diamant (ro) n
- Romansch: diamant m
- Russian: алма́з (ru) m (almáz), бриллиа́нт (ru) m (brilliánt), брилья́нт (ru) m (brilʹjánt) (variant of "бриллиант"), брю́лик (ru) m (brjúlik) (slang), диама́нт (ru) (diamánt) (archaic)
- Samoan: taimane
- Sanskrit: वज्र (sa) m (vajra)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: ၸိင်ႇ (shn) (tsìng)
- Sicilian: diamanti m
- Sinhalese: දියමන්ති (si) (diyamanti)
- Slovak: diamant (sk) m
- Slovene: diamant (sl) m, demant m
- Spanish: diamante (es) m, gema (es)
- Swahili: almasi (sw)
- Swedish: brilliant (sv) c, diamant (sv) c
- Tagalog: brilyante, diyamante
- Tajik: алмос (almos)
- Telugu: వజ్రం (te) (vajraṁ)
- Thai: เพชร (th) (pét)
- Tok Pisin: daimen
- Turkish: pırlanta (tr), elmas (tr)
- Turkmen: almaz (tk)
- Ukrainian: діама́нт m (diamánt), брилья́нт (uk) m (brylʹjánt)
- Urdu: ہیرا m (hīrā)
- Uyghur: ئالماس (almas)
- Uzbek: olmos (uz)
- Vietnamese: kim cương (vi)
- Welsh: diemwnt m, diemwntau m pl
- Yiddish: דימענט (diment)
very pale blue color/colour
geometry: polyiamond
card games: card of the diamonds suit
- Arabic: اَلدِّينَارِيّ m (ad-dīnāriyy)
- Armenian: ագուռ (hy) (aguṙ)
- Asturian: diamante m
- Bulgarian: каро́ n (karó)
- Burmese: ချွန်း (my) (hkywan:)
- Chinese:
- Czech: káry (cs) f pl, kule (cs) f pl
- Danish: ruder
- Estonian: ruutu (et)
- Finnish: ruutu (fi)
- French: carreau (fr) m
- German: Karo (de) n
- Greek: καρό (el) n (karó)
- Hebrew: יהלום (he) m (yahalom)
- Hungarian: káró (hu)
- Icelandic: tígull (is) m
- Irish: muileata m
- Italian: quadri (it) m pl
- Japanese: ダイヤ (ja) (daiya)
- Khmer: ការ៉ូ (kaaroo)
- Korean: 다이아몬드 (ko) (daiamondeu)
- Macedonian: каро́ n (karó), баклава (mk) f (baklava)
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: óola
- Ojibwe: gaanoo, gakak
- Persian: خشت (fa) (xešt)
- Polish: karo (pl) n, poduszka (pl) f (colloquial), diament (pl) f (colloquial)
- Portuguese: ouros (pt) m pl
- Russian: бу́бны (ru) f pl (búbny), бу́бна (ru) f (búbna)
- Swahili: uru
- Swedish: ruter (sv) c, ruterkort n
- Thai: ข้าวหลามตัด (th) (kâao-lǎam-dtàt)
- Tok Pisin: daimen
- Welsh: diemwnt m, deimwnt m
- Yiddish: לעקעך m (lekekh)
diamond (not comparable)
- Made of, or containing diamond, a diamond or diamonds.
- Synonym: diamantine
He gave her diamond earrings.
- Of, relating to, or being a sixtieth anniversary.
Today is their diamond wedding anniversary.
- Of, relating to, or being a seventy-fifth anniversary.
Today is their diamond wedding anniversary.
- (slang) First-rate; excellent.
He's a diamond geezer.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
made of, or containing diamond
- Bulgarian: диамантен (diamanten)
- Chinese:
- Czech: diamantový (cs)
- Irish: diamaint
- Macedonian: дијама́нтски (dijamántski)
- Polish: diamentowy (pl) m
- Russian: алма́зный (ru) (almáznyj)
- Spanish: diamantino (es) m, adamantino (es) m
- Swedish: diamant- (sv)
- Ukrainian: діамантовий (diamantovyj), алма́зний (uk) (almáznyj)
diamond (third-person singular simple present diamonds, present participle diamonding, simple past and past participle diamonded)
- To adorn with or as if with diamonds.
- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Diamond”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “diamond”, in Mindat.org[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
- “diamond n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “diamond adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- Eric Partridge (2005) “diamond”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 580.