gemstone
Americannoun
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gemstones
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gemstone
before 1000; Middle English gimstone, Old English gimstān. See gem, stone
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The structure included a rounded base and a top with multiple flat faces resembling a cut gemstone.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026
These include unusual ones such as the gemstone eudialyte and steenstrupine, which contains other rare earths used in high-tech devices.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
"The diamond and gemstone market is liquid and there are many buyers on the fringes that don't ask too many questions."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
Meanwhile, the Brazilian government has engaged in its own lengthy legal battle in federal court to try to repatriate the gemstone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
So I told him the mission: When they were digging the king’s new wading pool, they found some old, buried goblin treasure—a giant gemstone carved with some kind of a story on it.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
His knowledge of the ancient world was boundless; his specialist interest was gemstones.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
"A large variety of geological terrains exists, which have been formed by many different processes. As a result, Greenland has several types of metals, minerals and gemstones," it says in a document on its website.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
But this one had a special addition of LED lights and ‘chakra-aligning’ gemstones that Vargas claimed pulsed at 4 hertz — a frequency she said that’s meant to help the immune system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
Inspired by nature, her abstract forms look like extraterrestrial corals, otherworldly weeds and rare gemstones from far off planets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
In the almost darkness, I couldn’t see much, but I could feel the cold smoothness of the gold ingots, the pictures pressed into the coins, the perfect facets of the gemstones.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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