Definitions for jewelry
jew·el·ry

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. jewelry, jewellery(noun)

   an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Jewelry(noun)

   the art or trade of a jeweler

   Etymology: [Cf. F. joaillerie.]

2. Jewelry(noun)

   jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry

   Etymology: [Cf. F. joaillerie.]

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1. Jewelry

   Jewelry is a South Korean girl group which was formed in 2001. Its most successful album was Kitchi Island. As of 2013, they are the longest running Korean girl group ever, surpassing super-group Baby V.O.X.

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1. Jewelry

   Objects of precious metal usually containing gems and worn to enhance personal appearance. Health concerns include possible contamination from lead content or bacteria.

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1. Jewelry

   Small incandescent lamps are sometimes mounted as articles of jewelry in scarf-pins or in the hair. They may be supplied with current from storage or from portable batteries carried on the person.

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1. jewelry

   Song lyrics by jewelry -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by jewelry on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce jewelry?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say jewelry in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of jewelry in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of jewelry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of jewelry in a Sentence

1. Birdie Levine:

   Due to Covid-19, we were closed for almost three months and then we were only allowed to offer curbside sales, these conditions definitely had an adverse effect. It was not until July that we witnessed an uptick in higher-end diamond sales. We've been selling a lot of $ 20,000, $ 30,000, $ 40,000 diamond jewelry pieces.

2. Ann Marie Sharoupim:

   I worked for months to come up with a way to create jewelry that would last.

3. John Kennedy:

   [ Sophisticated ] robbers could work with a corrupt diamond cutter... in one of the jewelry centers such as Antwerp, and have the [ stone ] re-cut and the laser [ inscription ] removed, and the diamond re-set, the goal is to change the weight, appearance and to some degree the shape of her diamond so it appears to be a different stone and then market it. Perhaps getting a new diamond grading report from a European lab, and not from Geological Institute of America.

4. Anne Sebba:

   I think the problem for Wallis really was that she was brash, she would walk into a room and say, 'Hi, I'm Wallis.' She'd wear lots of jewelry. She'd talk about money.

5. Philip Klapwijk:

   It's not as if consumers aren't spending money, but they're not spending it on jewelry in the way they used to, consumers' discretionary purchasing power is being spent on other things -- white goods, and certainly tourism. More Chinese tourists are going abroad, and that also means during important public holidays, fewer people are visiting department stores.

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