garnet

See also: garnett

English

Garnet (1)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/

Etymology 1

From Middle English gernet, granate, borrowed from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.

Noun

garnet (countable and uncountable, 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, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎^[1], 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 color, like that of the gemstone.

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Derived terms

Derived terms

• demantoid garnet
• garnet berry (red currant)
• garnet brown
• garnetiferous
• garnierite

• gooseberry garnet
• mandarin garnet
• tsavorite garnet
• YAG

Related terms

• grenade
• pomegranate

Translations

mineral

• Afrikaans: granaat (af)
• Armenian: նռնաքար (hy) (nṙnakʻar)
• Bulgarian: гранат m (granat)
• Burmese: ဂေါ်မိတ် (my) (gaumit)
• Catalan: granat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石榴石 (zh) (shíliushí)

• Czech: granát (cs) m
• Dutch: granaat (nl)
• Esperanto: grenato
• Estonian: granaadid
• Finnish: granaatti (fi)
• French: grenat (fr)
• Georgian: გრანატი (granaṭi)
• German: Granat (de) m
• Greek: λυχνίτης (el) m (lychnítis)

  Ancient: λυχνίτης m (lukhnítēs)

• Hindi: याक़ूत m (yāqūt), याकूत (hi) m (yākūt)
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• Irish: gairnéad m
• Italian: granato m, granata (it) f
• Japanese: 柘榴石 (ざくろいし zakuroishi), ガーネット (gānetto)
• Maori: kāreti
• Persian: بیجاده (fa) (bīǰāde)
• Polish: granat (pl) m
• Portuguese: granada (pt) f
• Romanian: granat (ro) n
• Russian: грана́т (ru) m (granát)
• Serbo-Croatian: granat (sh) m
• Spanish: granate (es) m
• Swedish: granat (sv) c
• Tagalog: granate
• Thai: โกเมน (th) (kōmēn)
• Urdu: یاقوت (ur) m (yāqūt)
• Welsh: garned m

colour

• Bulgarian: тъмно червен m (tǎmno červen)
• Catalan: granat (ca) m
• Finnish: granaatinpunainen, tummanpunainen (fi)
• French: grenat (fr) m
• Georgian: გრანატისფერი (granaṭisperi)
• German: Granat (de), Granatrot n
• Greek: γκρενά (el) n (gkrená)
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• Japanese: ガーネット色 (gānettoshoku)
• Persian: بیجاده‌گون (bīǰāde-gūn)
• Polish: granat (pl) m
• Portuguese: grená (pt)
• Spanish: granate (es) m
• Tagalog: granate

See also

mineral

• allochroite
• almandine
• andradite
• carbuncle
• cinnamon stone
• Colorado ruby
• demantoid
• essonite
• grossularite

• hessonite
• melanite
• ouvarovite
• pyrope
• rhodolite
• spessartine
• topazolite
• tsavorite
• uvarovite

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, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Etymology 2

Noun

garnet (plural garnets)

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

Etymology 3

Verb

garnet (third-person singular simple present garnets, present participle garneting, simple past and past participle garneted)

1. (transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.

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.
(See the entry for “garnet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Gretna, Tanger, argent, gerant

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Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gar‧net

Noun

garnet

1. (mineralogy) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives
2. a dark red color, like that of the gemstone

Adjective

garnet

1. of a dark red colour

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Danish

Noun

garnet n

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of garn

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

garnet n

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of garn

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

garnet n

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of garn

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Swedish

Noun

garnet

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of garn

Anagrams

• regnat