garnet

[ gahr-nit ]

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noun

any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
a deep-red color.

Origin of garnet

1275–1325; Middle English garnet, gernate<Old French gernate, grenade<Latin grānātum granular; cf. pomegranate

Other words from garnet

gar·net·like, adjective

Other definitions for Garnet (2 of 2)

Garnet

[ gahr-nit ]

noun

Henry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist.

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How to use garnet in a sentence

Raise main tack and sheet; man the main clew-garnets, buntlines, and leech-lines; clew up cheerily, lads!
A Middy of the King | Harry Collingwood
A girdle ornament in gold, set with garnets (fig. 28), is an example of Carolingian design of a high class.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 4 | Various
I could feed and clothe her, deck her with necklaces of garnets from the rocks, and wreaths of the delicate sand-wort flower.
Lazarre | Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Look here,'—and he showed her the garnets suspended to his watch-chain—'we will exchange rings in the old German fashion, dear.
Heriot's Choice | Rosa Nouchette Carey
I have seen full garnets obtained from the wash here which were of the size of small peas.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1900 | Various

British Dictionary definitions for garnet (1 of 2)

garnet¹

/ (ˈɡɑːnɪt) /

noun

any of a group of hard glassy red, yellow, or green minerals consisting of the silicates of calcium, iron, manganese, chromium, magnesium, and aluminium in cubic crystalline form: used as a gemstone and abrasive. Formula: A 3 B 2 (SiO 4) 3 where A is a divalent metal and B is a trivalent metal

Origin of garnet

C13: from Old French grenat, from grenat (adj) red, from pome grenate pomegranate

Derived forms of garnet

garnet-like, adjective

British Dictionary definitions for garnet (2 of 2)

garnet²

/ (ˈɡɑːnɪt) /

noun

nautical a tackle used for lifting cargo

Origin of garnet

C15: probably from Middle Dutch garnaat

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Scientific definitions for garnet

garnet

[ gär′nĭt ]

Any of several common red, brown, black, green, or yellow minerals having the general chemical formula A3B2SiO8, where A is either calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), iron (Fe), or manganese (Mn) and B is either aluminum (Al), manganese, iron, chromium (Cr), or vanadium (V). Garnet crystals are dodecahedral in shape, transparent to semitransparent, and have a vitreous luster. They usually occur in metamorphic rocks but also occur in igneous and sedimentary rocks.

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