Jewelry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Jewelry is a noun meaning US standard spelling of jewellery.
Meaning
US standard spelling of jewellery.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To make jewelry.
- (intransitive) To adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry.
Example Sentences
He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring.
The members of this family have an honest and honorable record in their dealings and relations in every way, preferring the peaceful calling of farming, poultrying, and jewelrying; with a home of many comforts and enjoyments.
“The Global Africa Project” at the Museum of Arts & Design tries to survey this pervasiveness, in terms of contemporary visual endeavors of all kinds: jewelry, fashion, architecture, basketry, ceramics, painting, utilitarian design.
The large UNESCO hall, where she exhibited, held them all in full space and light — the early paintings, the hand-woven textures and colors in wool, the brilliance of enamels and glass, jewelried silver and gold, and the structured clay metal and stone pieces.
Word Forms
- jewelries
- jewelrying
- jewelried
Synonyms for jewelry
Depending on context, synonyms include jewellery.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include jewellery, jeweller, jeweler, necklace, ornament, adornment.
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