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cerulean

[suh-roo-lee-uh n]

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adjective, noun

deep blue; sky blue; azure.

Heraldry. a sky-blue tincture, used especially on the Continent.

Origin of cerulean

1660–70; < Latin caerule(us) dark blue, azure (akin to caelum sky) + -an

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Related Words for cerulean

blue-green, blue, turquoise, royal, azure, navy, indigo, sapphire, ultramarine, cobalt, beryl, teal, bluish

Examples from the Web for cerulean

Contemporary Examples of cerulean

On Monday, Nicole Richie debuted her latest Technicolor hairstyle—a side-swept Cerulean low bun—on Good Morning America.
Tangled Up in Blue: Young Stars and Their Blue Rinses
Erin Cunningham
July 9, 2014

Historical Examples of cerulean

Or the cerulean borrowed from the tint of the southern indigo.
Man of Uz, and Other Poems
Lydia Howard Sigourney
And out of these shone, shone on us, the cerulean and sapphire glory!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
Various
Let me know whether you intend to wear one of your cerulean shades.
Molly Brown's Freshman Days
Nell Speed
So we went, all of us, back through vast woodland to cerulean water.
1492
Mary Johnston
Blue, blue, as if the sky let fallA flower from its cerulean wall!
The Garden, You, and I
Mabel Osgood Wright

British Dictionary definitions for cerulean

cerulean

noun

a deep blue colour; azure
(as adjective)a cerulean sea

Word Origin for cerulean

C17: from Latin caeruleus, probably from caelum sky

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for cerulean

adj.

1660s, with -an + Latin caeruleus "blue, dark blue, blue-green," perhaps dissimilated from caelulum, diminutive of caelum "heaven, sky," of uncertain origin (see celestial). The Latin word was applied by Roman authors to the sky, the Mediterranean, and occasionally to leaves or fields. As a noun, from 1756.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper