Amber

Quick meaning: Amber is a noun meaning A yellow-orange colour.

Meaning

A yellow-orange colour.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
2. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
3. (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
4. (British, Commonwealth, Australia) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
5. (biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
6. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
7. (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

Example Sentences

Ambre is hote and drye […] Some say that it is the sparme of a whale.

Slaves […] with silver Censors […] perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.

With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery, With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.

Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of wit.

Word Forms

• ambers
• ambering
• ambered

Synonyms for amber

Depending on context, synonyms include yellow, ambergris, chromatic, gold, colored.

Antonyms for amber

Common opposites include red, green.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gold, colored, chromatic, yellow, red, orange.

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