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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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
Unable to use legitimate exchanges, Daniel testified he converted some by trading it for gold with a downtown L.A. jeweler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
Spiro grew up privileged in London, one of four children of Glenn Spiro, a prominent jeweler who counts Jay-Z as a client and pal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
The performance began with Bad Bunny walking through a sugar cane field, interacting with a beloved L.A. taco stand, a jeweler, a nail technician and a group of older men playing dominoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
The young jeweler hugged his inventory tight to his chest and rocked back and forth.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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
Silver is also in demand from jewelers, medical-device makers, electric-vehicle manufacturers, data-center developers and especially solar-panel factories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
Reputable jewelers who purchase stones are careful to avoid buying stolen goods.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025
The complaint, filed within weeks of the heist, seeks to limit any payout Brink’s could have to make to the jewelers to that amount, alleging they “substantially under-declared the value of their shipments.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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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