a usually colorless, crystalline mineral consisting of pure carbon, with nearly perfect cleavage and the greatest hardness of any substance: unflawed, transparent stones are cut into gems of great brilliance, and less perfect forms are used for cutting tools, abrasives, etc.
a gem or other piece cut from this mineral
a lozenge-shaped plane figure (♦)
any of a suit of playing cards marked with such figures in red
this suit of cards
☆ Baseball
the infield
the whole playing field
adjective
of, like, or set with a diamond or diamonds
marking or celebrating the 60th, or sometimes 75th, year: a diamond jubilee
transitive verb
to adorn with or as with diamonds
See diamond in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(dīˈə-mənd, dīˈmənd)
noun
An extremely hard, highly refractive crystalline form of carbon that is usually colorless and is used as a gemstone and in abrasives, cutting tools, and other applications.
A piece of jewelry containing such a gemstone.
A figure with four equal sides forming two inner obtuse angles and two inner acute angles; a rhombus or lozenge.
Games
a. A red, lozenge-shaped figure on certain playing cards.
b. A playing card with this figure.
c. diamonds(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.