jeweler
Americannoun
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jewelers
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of jeweler
1300–50; Middle English jueler < Anglo-French jueler, Middle French juelier. See jewel, -er 2
Explanation
A jeweler is someone whose job involves making or selling necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. Thinking about buying your sweetheart something for Valentine's Day? A jeweler can show you some beautiful rings. You might also visit a jeweler to get your jewelry repaired, or to buy a fancy watch. We've been making and wearing jewelry, small decorative ornaments, for just about as long as humans have existed. Today, when we want to buy jewelry, particularly expensive or fine pieces, we visit a jeweler. Both words stem from jewel and its Latin root, jocus, which can mean "that which causes joy."
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“If you are a consumer for a $100 to a $500 jewelry item, and you used to go to a specialty jeweler, you don’t anymore,” said Edahn Golan, a partner at Tenoris.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Beverly Hills-based jeweler Jason Arasheben crafted the Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl rings celebrating the team’s 2025 season title.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
When Captain John Smith and the British colonists first came to the Jamestown colony in Virginia in the early 17th century, he recorded two goldsmiths, a jeweler and two refiners on the ship, Gordon says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
As the jeweler quietly continued working on the white-gold-and-platinum bracelet, hole by painstaking hole, she was interrupted by an observer, a compact 58-year-old man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
The furrier and the jeweler sat at the next table over.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
However, at those specialty jewelers specifically, unit sales — a gauge of the actual number of items sold — are down 8.5% overall so far this year, according to data from the firm.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The entertainment industry and its attendant army of PR departments, stylists and jewelers would like us to believe otherwise, of course.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
I love exploring Chinatown, peeking into the windows of jewelers boasting diamonds and gold and Rolexes, and discovering secret cinemas across the street from death doulas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
If retail prices remain unchanged, Citi estimates 2026 net profits to be set back for gold jewelers: Laopu Gold by 15%, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group by 26% and Luk Fook Holdings by 6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
And all of the jewelers in Boston had been alerted.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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