jeweler
Americannoun
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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."
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
In a separate statement, the jeweler said it named Philippa Newman as its new Chief Product Officer, effective from March 9.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Rasseem, the young jeweler, the furrier, the spicer and his mother, the blacksmith and Mara all huddled around for what Samir called “an emergency meeting of the tribe.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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