garnet

See also garnett

English

Wikipedia

Garnet (1)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/, X-SAMPA: /"gA:(r).n@t/

Etymology 1

From Middle English granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”).

Noun

garnet (plural garnets)

1. (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127:

     How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.

   • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128: 

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

2. A dark red.

   garnet colour:

Derived terms

Derived terms

demantoid garnet garnetiferous garnierite

gooseberry garnet mandarin garnet tsavorite garnet YAG

See also

mineral

allochroite almandine andradite carbuncle cinnamon stone Colorado ruby demantoid essonite grossularite

hessonite melanite ouvarovite pyrope rhodolite spessartine topazolite tsavorite uvarovite

Translations

mineral

• Armenian: նռնաքար (hy) (nëṙnak'ar)
• Catalan: granat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石榴石 (cmn) (shíliushí)

• Czech: granát (cs) m
• Dutch: granaat (nl)
• Esperanto: grenato (eo)
• Estonian: granaadid (et)
• Finnish: granaatti (fi)
• French: grenat (fr)

• German: Granat (de) m
• Italian: granato (it) m
• Japanese: ガーネット (ja) (gānetto)
• Polish: m
• Russian: гранат (ru) (granát) m
• Serbo-Croatian: m
• Spanish: granate (es) m
• Swedish: granat (sv) c

colour

• Catalan: granat (ca) m
• Finnish: tummanpunainen, granaatin värinen
• German: Granat (de), Granatrot (de)
• Japanese: ガーネット色 (gānettoshoku)

• Polish: granat (pl) m
• Portuguese: grená (pt)
• Spanish: granate (es) m

Adjective

garnet

1. Of a dark red colour.

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Etymology 2

Noun

garnet (plural garnets)

1. (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• argent

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Danish

Noun

garnet n

1. singular definite of garn

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Norwegian

Noun

garnet

1. Definite form of garn

   Hun brukte det røde garnet i strikketøyet.

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Swedish

Noun

garnet

1. definite singular of garn