Definition of sapphire in English:

sapphire

noun ˈsafʌɪəˈsæˌfaɪ(ə)r

1A transparent precious stone, typically blue, which is a variety of corundum (aluminium oxide)
蓝宝石
as modifier a sapphire ring
Example sentencesExamples
- Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, rubies, opals, sapphires, emeralds, and many more gems I couldn't name adorned his neck, wrists, hands and ankles.
- The possibilities were endless: rubies, emeralds, sapphires and black onyx.
- A few months ago I was considering a custom-made toilet seat decorated with rubies, sapphires, pearls and a diamond.
- Pearl earrings accented with diamonds, sapphires, or rubies.
- One by one, he picked up the diamond necklace, the ruby necklace, the sapphire ring, and the onyx ring.
- The most expensive were composed of a carved hardstone mounted in gold, with or without enameling, and with push-pieces of moonstone or sapphires bordered by rose diamonds.
- The whole was embroidered with hundreds of pearls laced with two agates, twelve chrysolites, twelve garnets, a gold-mounted sapphire and a large pendant pearl.
- On her fingers, she wore diamond, emerald and sapphire rings, and jeweled earrings hung from her ears.
- Emma wiped away her tears and took the small sapphire ring from the box.
- Most of them were common gems - rubies, diamonds, onyxes, sapphires, emeralds, topazes, and so on, and were used to supplement Elements and Talents.
- Ruby, sapphire, emerald, opal, coral, and pearl are found in abundance.
- You might like a plain silver ring with ancient Celtic designs or a sapphire and diamond-encrusted ring made of pure gold.
- Gemstones such as diamonds, opals, sapphires, and rubies are produced in Brazil.
- The hardest stones, such as diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, are normally cut and polished and mounted as jewellery.
- There must have been at least twenty paintings in all and they displayed spectacular scenes and were framed in what looked like frames of emeralds, rubies, sapphires and other precious gems!
- Wading in a pool of brackish water, a man pans for rubies, sapphires and other gems using a basket at one of Sri Lanka's many pit mines.
- ‘I want you to keep this,’ he told me, his eyes fixed on the sapphire ring.
- Her necklace was seen more visibly with the blue sapphire jewel glowing slightly.
- Like those objects, the cup is decorated with gemstones - emeralds, rubies, and sapphires.
- There are no futures markets in diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, amethysts or any other precious stone because of their ‘unique’ factor.
1. 1.1mass noun A bright blue colour.
  宝石蓝色，天蓝色
  as modifier the sapphire blue of the lake
  there was the slightest flicker of light deep within his sapphire eyes
  Example sentencesExamples
  Charles nodded, reached into his coat pocket, and withdrew a square, sapphire blue, lidded box, only slightly larger than his palm.
  Her eyes were sapphire blue and had the ability to drown me in.
  He still had the same reddish-bronze hair and sapphire blue eyes, but his looks had changed dramatically.
  A button-up oxford shirt, sapphire blue, meshed well with his eyes.
  Sometimes, they would change into an incredible tint of sapphire blue.
  She and the two men were on the very edge of the desert, where there was nothing but a clear, sapphire blue sky to look up to.
  She looked stunning in a gown of sapphire blue, which emphasized the blueness of her eyes.
  Claire smoothed the skirt of her sapphire blue evening gown.
  The sun is Crayola yellow and the water is sapphire blue.
  She had hair made of strands of pure gold, and eyes like the hundred thousand sapphire blue irises that had encased Nighting Lyre.
  She was beautiful, and her eyes were sapphire blue.
  She looked in the mirror and changed her contacts from pearl gray to sapphire blue.
  She had that amazing, natural-blonde head of hair and deep, sapphire blue eyes.
  By the nineteenth century these glass liners were often made in a beautiful deep sapphire blue that showed through their openwork silver cages.
  Amethyst, sapphire blue and green color lenses are magnificent on women with dark skin.
  Johnny's sapphire blue eyes twinkled with enthusiasm.
  She wore a long, sapphire blue gown embroidered with silver.
  She had waist long brown hair, and dazzling sapphire blue eyes.
  His eyes were a stunning, mesmerizing, absolutely divinely hue of sapphire blue.
  A bucket with sapphire blue water was in my hands.
  Synonyms
  sky-blue, azure, cobalt, cobalt blue, sapphire, cerulean, navy, navy blue, saxe, saxe blue, oxford blue, cambridge blue, ultramarine, lapis lazuli, indigo, aquamarine, turquoise, teal, teal blue, cyan, of the colour of the sky, of the colour of the sea
2A small hummingbird with shining blue or violet colours in its plumage and a short tail.
蓝喉蓝胸红嘴蜂鸟
Hylocharis and other genera, family Trochilidae: several species
Example sentencesExamples
- He also heard a blue-throated sapphire (also called a blue-throated golden-tail), a relatively small hummingbird.

Derivatives

sapphirine

adjective ˈsafɪrʌɪn

Consisting of, containing, or resembling sapphire.
sapphirine granulite
Example sentencesExamples
- sapphirine eyes
- The upper-intercept zircon age of 988 Ma from sapphirine granulite is c.100 Ma older than the concordant monazite age of 900 Ma, which is commonly taken to represent the latest thermal equilibration.
- Additionally, isotopic disequilibrium between whole rock and minerals in sapphirine granulites could have resulted from rapid melting and been further enhanced by a prolonged reaction history of the sapphirine granulite.
- The three sapphirine granulite samples with Sm / Nd ratios 0.1699, 0.1734 and 0.179 do not show sufficient spread in their isotopic ratios and hence no meaningful isochron can be derived.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French safir, via Latin from Greek sappheiros, probably denoting lapis lazuli.

Definition of sapphire in US English:

sapphire

nounˈsæˌfaɪ(ə)rˈsaˌfī(ə)r

1A transparent precious stone, typically blue, that is a variety of corundum (aluminum oxide)
蓝宝石
as modifier a sapphire ring
Example sentencesExamples
- On her fingers, she wore diamond, emerald and sapphire rings, and jeweled earrings hung from her ears.
- A few months ago I was considering a custom-made toilet seat decorated with rubies, sapphires, pearls and a diamond.
- The hardest stones, such as diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, are normally cut and polished and mounted as jewellery.
- The possibilities were endless: rubies, emeralds, sapphires and black onyx.
- There must have been at least twenty paintings in all and they displayed spectacular scenes and were framed in what looked like frames of emeralds, rubies, sapphires and other precious gems!
- Her necklace was seen more visibly with the blue sapphire jewel glowing slightly.
- You might like a plain silver ring with ancient Celtic designs or a sapphire and diamond-encrusted ring made of pure gold.
- Most of them were common gems - rubies, diamonds, onyxes, sapphires, emeralds, topazes, and so on, and were used to supplement Elements and Talents.
- Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, rubies, opals, sapphires, emeralds, and many more gems I couldn't name adorned his neck, wrists, hands and ankles.
- ‘I want you to keep this,’ he told me, his eyes fixed on the sapphire ring.
- Ruby, sapphire, emerald, opal, coral, and pearl are found in abundance.
- Wading in a pool of brackish water, a man pans for rubies, sapphires and other gems using a basket at one of Sri Lanka's many pit mines.
- Like those objects, the cup is decorated with gemstones - emeralds, rubies, and sapphires.
- The most expensive were composed of a carved hardstone mounted in gold, with or without enameling, and with push-pieces of moonstone or sapphires bordered by rose diamonds.
- Gemstones such as diamonds, opals, sapphires, and rubies are produced in Brazil.
- One by one, he picked up the diamond necklace, the ruby necklace, the sapphire ring, and the onyx ring.
- There are no futures markets in diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, amethysts or any other precious stone because of their ‘unique’ factor.
- The whole was embroidered with hundreds of pearls laced with two agates, twelve chrysolites, twelve garnets, a gold-mounted sapphire and a large pendant pearl.
- Emma wiped away her tears and took the small sapphire ring from the box.
- Pearl earrings accented with diamonds, sapphires, or rubies.
1. 1.1 A bright blue color.
  宝石蓝色，天蓝色
  as modifier the sapphire blue of the lake
  there was the slightest flicker of light deep within his sapphire eyes
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was beautiful, and her eyes were sapphire blue.
  She had waist long brown hair, and dazzling sapphire blue eyes.
  Her eyes were sapphire blue and had the ability to drown me in.
  Charles nodded, reached into his coat pocket, and withdrew a square, sapphire blue, lidded box, only slightly larger than his palm.
  Claire smoothed the skirt of her sapphire blue evening gown.
  She and the two men were on the very edge of the desert, where there was nothing but a clear, sapphire blue sky to look up to.
  Amethyst, sapphire blue and green color lenses are magnificent on women with dark skin.
  Johnny's sapphire blue eyes twinkled with enthusiasm.
  By the nineteenth century these glass liners were often made in a beautiful deep sapphire blue that showed through their openwork silver cages.
  Sometimes, they would change into an incredible tint of sapphire blue.
  She looked stunning in a gown of sapphire blue, which emphasized the blueness of her eyes.
  She wore a long, sapphire blue gown embroidered with silver.
  The sun is Crayola yellow and the water is sapphire blue.
  A button-up oxford shirt, sapphire blue, meshed well with his eyes.
  She had that amazing, natural-blonde head of hair and deep, sapphire blue eyes.
  She looked in the mirror and changed her contacts from pearl gray to sapphire blue.
  He still had the same reddish-bronze hair and sapphire blue eyes, but his looks had changed dramatically.
  A bucket with sapphire blue water was in my hands.
  His eyes were a stunning, mesmerizing, absolutely divinely hue of sapphire blue.
  She had hair made of strands of pure gold, and eyes like the hundred thousand sapphire blue irises that had encased Nighting Lyre.
  Synonyms
  sky-blue, azure, cobalt, cobalt blue, sapphire, cerulean, navy, navy blue, saxe, saxe blue, oxford blue, cambridge blue, ultramarine, lapis lazuli, indigo, aquamarine, turquoise, teal, teal blue, cyan, of the colour of the sky, of the colour of the sea
2A small hummingbird with shining blue or violet colors in its plumage and a short tail.
蓝喉蓝胸红嘴蜂鸟
Hylocharis and other genera, family Trochilidae: several species
Example sentencesExamples
- He also heard a blue-throated sapphire (also called a blue-throated golden-tail), a relatively small hummingbird.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French safir, via Latin from Greek sappheiros, probably denoting lapis lazuli.

单词	sapphire
释义	Definition of sapphire in English: sapphire noun ˈsafʌɪəˈsæˌfaɪ(ə)r 1A transparent precious stone, typically blue, which is a variety of corundum (aluminium oxide) 蓝宝石 as modifier a sapphire ring Example sentencesExamples Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, rubies, opals, sapphires, emeralds, and many more gems I couldn't name adorned his neck, wrists, hands and ankles. The possibilities were endless: rubies, emeralds, sapphires and black onyx. A few months ago I was considering a custom-made toilet seat decorated with rubies, sapphires, pearls and a diamond. Pearl earrings accented with diamonds, sapphires, or rubies. One by one, he picked up the diamond necklace, the ruby necklace, the sapphire ring, and the onyx ring. The most expensive were composed of a carved hardstone mounted in gold, with or without enameling, and with push-pieces of moonstone or sapphires bordered by rose diamonds. The whole was embroidered with hundreds of pearls laced with two agates, twelve chrysolites, twelve garnets, a gold-mounted sapphire and a large pendant pearl. On her fingers, she wore diamond, emerald and sapphire rings, and jeweled earrings hung from her ears. Emma wiped away her tears and took the small sapphire ring from the box. Most of them were common gems - rubies, diamonds, onyxes, sapphires, emeralds, topazes, and so on, and were used to supplement Elements and Talents. Ruby, sapphire, emerald, opal, coral, and pearl are found in abundance. You might like a plain silver ring with ancient Celtic designs or a sapphire and diamond-encrusted ring made of pure gold. Gemstones such as diamonds, opals, sapphires, and rubies are produced in Brazil. The hardest stones, such as diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, are normally cut and polished and mounted as jewellery. There must have been at least twenty paintings in all and they displayed spectacular scenes and were framed in what looked like frames of emeralds, rubies, sapphires and other precious gems! Wading in a pool of brackish water, a man pans for rubies, sapphires and other gems using a basket at one of Sri Lanka's many pit mines. ‘I want you to keep this,’ he told me, his eyes fixed on the sapphire ring. Her necklace was seen more visibly with the blue sapphire jewel glowing slightly. Like those objects, the cup is decorated with gemstones - emeralds, rubies, and sapphires. There are no futures markets in diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, amethysts or any other precious stone because of their ‘unique’ factor. 1.1mass noun A bright blue colour. 宝石蓝色，天蓝色 as modifier the sapphire blue of the lake there was the slightest flicker of light deep within his sapphire eyes Example sentencesExamples Charles nodded, reached into his coat pocket, and withdrew a square, sapphire blue, lidded box, only slightly larger than his palm. Her eyes were sapphire blue and had the ability to drown me in. He still had the same reddish-bronze hair and sapphire blue eyes, but his looks had changed dramatically. A button-up oxford shirt, sapphire blue, meshed well with his eyes. Sometimes, they would change into an incredible tint of sapphire blue. She and the two men were on the very edge of the desert, where there was nothing but a clear, sapphire blue sky to look up to. She looked stunning in a gown of sapphire blue, which emphasized the blueness of her eyes. Claire smoothed the skirt of her sapphire blue evening gown. The sun is Crayola yellow and the water is sapphire blue. She had hair made of strands of pure gold, and eyes like the hundred thousand sapphire blue irises that had encased Nighting Lyre. She was beautiful, and her eyes were sapphire blue. She looked in the mirror and changed her contacts from pearl gray to sapphire blue. She had that amazing, natural-blonde head of hair and deep, sapphire blue eyes. By the nineteenth century these glass liners were often made in a beautiful deep sapphire blue that showed through their openwork silver cages. Amethyst, sapphire blue and green color lenses are magnificent on women with dark skin. Johnny's sapphire blue eyes twinkled with enthusiasm. She wore a long, sapphire blue gown embroidered with silver. She had waist long brown hair, and dazzling sapphire blue eyes. His eyes were a stunning, mesmerizing, absolutely divinely hue of sapphire blue. A bucket with sapphire blue water was in my hands. Synonyms sky-blue, azure, cobalt, cobalt blue, sapphire, cerulean, navy, navy blue, saxe, saxe blue, oxford blue, cambridge blue, ultramarine, lapis lazuli, indigo, aquamarine, turquoise, teal, teal blue, cyan, of the colour of the sky, of the colour of the sea 2A small hummingbird with shining blue or violet colours in its plumage and a short tail. 蓝喉蓝胸红嘴蜂鸟 Hylocharis and other genera, family Trochilidae: several species Example sentencesExamples He also heard a blue-throated sapphire (also called a blue-throated golden-tail), a relatively small hummingbird. Derivatives sapphirine adjective ˈsafɪrʌɪn Consisting of, containing, or resembling sapphire. sapphirine granulite Example sentencesExamples sapphirine eyes The upper-intercept zircon age of 988 Ma from sapphirine granulite is c.100 Ma older than the concordant monazite age of 900 Ma, which is commonly taken to represent the latest thermal equilibration. Additionally, isotopic disequilibrium between whole rock and minerals in sapphirine granulites could have resulted from rapid melting and been further enhanced by a prolonged reaction history of the sapphirine granulite. The three sapphirine granulite samples with Sm / Nd ratios 0.1699, 0.1734 and 0.179 do not show sufficient spread in their isotopic ratios and hence no meaningful isochron can be derived. Origin Middle English: from Old French safir, via Latin from Greek sappheiros, probably denoting lapis lazuli. Definition of sapphire in US English: sapphire nounˈsæˌfaɪ(ə)rˈsaˌfī(ə)r 1A transparent precious stone, typically blue, that is a variety of corundum (aluminum oxide) 蓝宝石 as modifier a sapphire ring Example sentencesExamples On her fingers, she wore diamond, emerald and sapphire rings, and jeweled earrings hung from her ears. A few months ago I was considering a custom-made toilet seat decorated with rubies, sapphires, pearls and a diamond. The hardest stones, such as diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, are normally cut and polished and mounted as jewellery. The possibilities were endless: rubies, emeralds, sapphires and black onyx. There must have been at least twenty paintings in all and they displayed spectacular scenes and were framed in what looked like frames of emeralds, rubies, sapphires and other precious gems! Her necklace was seen more visibly with the blue sapphire jewel glowing slightly. You might like a plain silver ring with ancient Celtic designs or a sapphire and diamond-encrusted ring made of pure gold. Most of them were common gems - rubies, diamonds, onyxes, sapphires, emeralds, topazes, and so on, and were used to supplement Elements and Talents. Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, rubies, opals, sapphires, emeralds, and many more gems I couldn't name adorned his neck, wrists, hands and ankles. ‘I want you to keep this,’ he told me, his eyes fixed on the sapphire ring. Ruby, sapphire, emerald, opal, coral, and pearl are found in abundance. Wading in a pool of brackish water, a man pans for rubies, sapphires and other gems using a basket at one of Sri Lanka's many pit mines. Like those objects, the cup is decorated with gemstones - emeralds, rubies, and sapphires. The most expensive were composed of a carved hardstone mounted in gold, with or without enameling, and with push-pieces of moonstone or sapphires bordered by rose diamonds. Gemstones such as diamonds, opals, sapphires, and rubies are produced in Brazil. One by one, he picked up the diamond necklace, the ruby necklace, the sapphire ring, and the onyx ring. There are no futures markets in diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, amethysts or any other precious stone because of their ‘unique’ factor. The whole was embroidered with hundreds of pearls laced with two agates, twelve chrysolites, twelve garnets, a gold-mounted sapphire and a large pendant pearl. Emma wiped away her tears and took the small sapphire ring from the box. Pearl earrings accented with diamonds, sapphires, or rubies. 1.1 A bright blue color. 宝石蓝色，天蓝色 as modifier the sapphire blue of the lake there was the slightest flicker of light deep within his sapphire eyes Example sentencesExamples She was beautiful, and her eyes were sapphire blue. She had waist long brown hair, and dazzling sapphire blue eyes. Her eyes were sapphire blue and had the ability to drown me in. Charles nodded, reached into his coat pocket, and withdrew a square, sapphire blue, lidded box, only slightly larger than his palm. Claire smoothed the skirt of her sapphire blue evening gown. She and the two men were on the very edge of the desert, where there was nothing but a clear, sapphire blue sky to look up to. Amethyst, sapphire blue and green color lenses are magnificent on women with dark skin. Johnny's sapphire blue eyes twinkled with enthusiasm. By the nineteenth century these glass liners were often made in a beautiful deep sapphire blue that showed through their openwork silver cages. Sometimes, they would change into an incredible tint of sapphire blue. She looked stunning in a gown of sapphire blue, which emphasized the blueness of her eyes. She wore a long, sapphire blue gown embroidered with silver. The sun is Crayola yellow and the water is sapphire blue. A button-up oxford shirt, sapphire blue, meshed well with his eyes. She had that amazing, natural-blonde head of hair and deep, sapphire blue eyes. She looked in the mirror and changed her contacts from pearl gray to sapphire blue. He still had the same reddish-bronze hair and sapphire blue eyes, but his looks had changed dramatically. A bucket with sapphire blue water was in my hands. His eyes were a stunning, mesmerizing, absolutely divinely hue of sapphire blue. She had hair made of strands of pure gold, and eyes like the hundred thousand sapphire blue irises that had encased Nighting Lyre. Synonyms sky-blue, azure, cobalt, cobalt blue, sapphire, cerulean, navy, navy blue, saxe, saxe blue, oxford blue, cambridge blue, ultramarine, lapis lazuli, indigo, aquamarine, turquoise, teal, teal blue, cyan, of the colour of the sky, of the colour of the sea 2A small hummingbird with shining blue or violet colors in its plumage and a short tail. 蓝喉蓝胸红嘴蜂鸟 Hylocharis and other genera, family Trochilidae: several species Example sentencesExamples He also heard a blue-throated sapphire (also called a blue-throated golden-tail), a relatively small hummingbird. Origin Middle English: from Old French safir, via Latin from Greek sappheiros, probably denoting lapis lazuli.
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