Word Meanings - GEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bud. From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem. Denham. 2. A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. Milton.

Additional info about word: GEM

A bud. From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem. Denham. 2. A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. Milton. 3. Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying. Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GEM)

• Flower
• Perfection
• blossom
• bloom
• acme
• pride
• ornament
• gem
• cream
• Treasure
• Jewel
• store
• valuable
• cash
• bullion
• accumulation
• abundance
• stock
• wealth
• riches
• hoard
• paragon
• model

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GEM)

• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste
• betray

Related words: (words related to GEM)

• CREAM-FACED
  White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• RICHESSE
  Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. Some man desireth for to have richesse. Chaucer. The richesse of all heavenly grace. Spenser.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• JEWELRY
  1. The art or trade of a jeweler. Cotgrave. 2. Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• BLOOMINGNESS
  A blooming condition.
• BLOOMER
  1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and a broad-brimmed hat. 2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• BEJEWEL
  To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. "Bejeweled hands." Thackeray.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.