What is the difference between jewellery and jewel?
jewellery | jewel | Related terms |
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.
* ante'' 1611 , (William Shakespeare), '', lines 188–9:
(figuratively) Anything considered precious or valuable.
* Shakespeare
A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
(slang) The clitoris.
* 2008 , Another Time, Another Place: Five Novellas
To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
Jewel is a related term of jewellery.
Jewel is a derived term of jewellery.
As nouns the difference between jewellery and jewel
is that jewellery is collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones while jewel is a precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.As a verb jewel is
to bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.As a proper noun Jewel is
{{given name|female|from=English}} from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century.jewellery
English
(wikipedia jewellery)Etymology
From the word jewel, which was anglicized from the (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (US, Canada) jewelryNoun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
- She had more jewellery ornamented about her than any three ladies needed.
Synonyms
* tom (Cockney rhyming slang''), tomfoolery (''Cockney rhyming slang ); see alsojewel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Iachimo: 'Tis plate of rare device, and jewels / Of rich and exquisite form, their values great.
- our prince (jewel of children)
- The area between her eyebrows wrinkled with the increasing circular motions her two fingers made on her jewel .
