Amber Definition

ămbər

noun

A hard, translucent, usually brownish-yellow fossil resin, used for making jewelry and other ornamental objects.

American Heritage

A yellow or brownish-yellow translucent fossil resin found as along seacoasts and used in jewelry, pipestems, etc.: it is hard, easily polished, and quickly charged with static electricity when rubbed.

Webster's New World

A brownish yellow.

American Heritage

The color of amber.

Webster's New World

1579, The Booke of Simples, fol. 56 (contained in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes).

As for Amber Grice, or Amber Cane, which ist most sweet myngled with other sweete thynges: some say it commeth from the rocks of the Sea. […] Some say it is gotten by a fish called Azelum, which feedeth upon Amber Grece, and dyeth, which is taken by cunnyng fishers and the belly opened, and this precious Amber found in hym.

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Synonyms:

Synonyms:
gold

adjective

Having the color of amber; brownish-yellow.

American Heritage

Like or made of amber.

Webster's New World

Made of or resembling amber.

An amber necklace.

American Heritage

Having the color of amber.

Webster's New World

Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

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Synonyms:

Synonyms:
yellow-brown
brownish-yellow

verb

(rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

Ambered wine, an ambered room.

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(rare) To preserve in amber.

An ambered fly.

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(rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.

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(intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.

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pronoun

A female given name, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.

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A surname of uncertain origin.

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A female given name.

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A ruined city in Rajasthan, India.

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Other Word Forms of Amber

Noun

Singular:

amber

Plural:

ambers

Origin of Amber

The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".

From Wiktionary
From amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عنبر (anbar, “amber”)

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Middle English ambre from Old French from Medieval Latin ambra, ambar from Arabic ‘anbar ambergris, amber

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From a form of the Hindi आसमान (āsmān, “the heavens”).

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