Azure

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A light purplish-blue.
  • n. Heraldry The color blue.
  • n. The blue sky.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
  • n. The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
  • n. The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
  • n. Lapis lazuli.
  • adj. Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
  • adj. In blazon, of the colour blue.
  • v. To colour blue.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
  • n. The lapis lazuli.
  • n. The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color.
  • n. The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.
  • n. A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
  • v. To color blue.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Lapis lazuli.
  • n. The fine blue color of the sky: as, “her eyes a bashful azure,”
  • n. A name formerly applied to several sky-colored or blue pigments, but now used for cobalt blue (which see, under blue).
  • n. The sky, or blue vault of heaven.
  • n. In heraldry, the tincture blue, which in uncolored drawings or engravings is represented by shading in horizontal lines. Often abbreviated to az.
  • Resembling the clear blue color of the sky; sky-blue.
  • To color blue.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a light shade of blue
  • adj. of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky
  • v. color azure
  • Equivalent
    chromatic   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blueness    blue    colour    colourize    colorise    color    color in    colorize    colour in    colourise   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    azurite    azureness    azurely    azurity   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sky-blue    cerulean    blue    celestic    cerule    cerulescent    skyey   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    luminous    iridescent    turquoise    bluish    emerald    dazzle    blue-green    misty    pearly    rosy