What does jewelry mean?
Definitions for jewelry
jew·el·ry
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word jewelry.
Princeton's WordNet
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
Jewelry(noun)
the art or trade of a jeweler
Etymology: [Cf. F. joaillerie.]
Jewelry(noun)
jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry
Etymology: [Cf. F. joaillerie.]
Freebase
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.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Jewelry
Objects of precious metal usually containing gems and worn to enhance personal appearance. Health concerns include possible contamination from lead content or bacteria.
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
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.
Suggested Resources
jewelry
Song lyrics by jewelry -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by jewelry on the Lyrics.com website.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of jewelry in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of jewelry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of jewelry in a Sentence
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.
I worked for months to come up with a way to create jewelry that would last.
[ 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.
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.
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.
Popularity rank by frequency of use
Translations for jewelry
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- مجوهراتArabic
- šperkyCzech
- smykkerDanish
- SchmuckGerman
- κοσμήματαGreek
- juvelojEsperanto
- joyasSpanish
- korutFinnish
- bijouxFrench
- आभूषणHindi
- ékszerekHungarian
- perhiasanIndonesian
- gioielliItalian
- תכשיטHebrew
- 宝石Japanese
- jewelryLatin
- juwelenDutch
- smykkerNorwegian
- biżuteriaPolish
- jóiasPortuguese
- bijuteriiRomanian
- Ювелирные изделияRussian
- เครื่องเพชรพลอยThai
- takıTurkish
- ювелірні виробиUkrainian
- زیوراتUrdu
- צירונגYiddish
- 首饰Chinese
Get even more translations for jewelry »
Translation
Find a translation for the jewelry definition in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Word of the Day
Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?
Citation
Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:
"jewelry." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2021. Web. 3 Mar. 2021. <https://www.definitions.net/definition/jewelry>.