smaragd

American  

[smar-agd] / ˈsmær ægd /

noun

Rare.

1. emerald.

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smaragd British  

/ sməˈræɡdɪn, ˈsmæræɡd /

noun

1. archaic any green gemstone, such as the emerald

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Other Word Forms

• smaragdine
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of smaragd

1225–75; Middle English smaragde < Old French smaragde, esmaragde; see emerald

Example Sentences

Look for a rich white wine, like a Loire chenin blanc, a Wachau smaragd riesling from Austria, an old-school white Rioja or even a good white Rhône.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021

Serpents and scorpions come not nigh him that weareth a smaragd; but if a smaragd be held before the eyes of a serpent, water shall flow from them, and continue flowing, till it go blind.

From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich)

This couer to the necke was made in skalie work of Hyacinth, except the vaynes of smaragd, for the little dragons, their bellies and feetes fastening to the skalie couer.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert

The walls were hung with cloth of silver, embroidered with gold figures, over which were worked pomegranates, polyanthuses, and passion-flowers, in ruby, amethyst, and smaragd.

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace