Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to emeralds.
  • adjective Having the color of emeralds.
  • noun Emerald.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of a green color like that of smaragd—that is, of any brilliant green: an epithet used loosely and in different senses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Emerald.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to emeralds.
  • adjective Having the colour of emeralds.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Latin smaragdinus, emerald-green, from Greek smaragdinos, from smaragdos, emerald.]

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From Latin smaragdinus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδινος (smaragdinos), from σμάραγδος (smaragdos). See emerald for more.

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Examples

  • If the film you are watching is in color and features quirky kids striving to spell the word "smaragdine," you put the wrong DVD in your Netflix queue.

    The Morning News 2009

  • If the film you are watching is in color and features quirky kids striving to spell the word "smaragdine," you put the wrong DVD in your Netflix queue.

    The Morning News 2009

  • On a transverse axis, vision reached from glittering blue across the Sea of Marmora to a mast-crowded Golden Horn and the rich suburbs and smaragdine heights beyond.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

  • On a transverse axis, vision reached from glittering blue across the Sea of Marmora to a mast-crowded Golden Horn and the rich suburbs and smaragdine heights beyond.

    Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

  • There was a keyhole, plainly visible, but the key was doubtless drowned in the smaragdine depths of the unknown sea.

    Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

  • I turned my head again to the sea, and looking down into its smaragdine depths, let go of the victualistic store which I had been industriously accumulating ever since I had come through the lines.

    Andersonville John McElroy 1887

  • I turned my head again to the sea, and looking down into its smaragdine depths, let go of the victualistic store which I had been industriously accumulating ever since I had come through the lines.

    Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887

  • It hath reached me, O auspicious King, the director, the right-guiding, lord of the rede which is benefiting and of deeds fair-seeming and worthy celebrating, that Mohammed Son of the Sultan craved leave to return to his own motherland, when his father-in-law gave him an hundred clusters of the diamantine and smaragdine grapes, after which he farewelled the King and taking his bride fared without the city.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • 'I have been, continued he, many years in search of the Philosopher's Stone, and long master of the smaragdine-table of Hermes Trismegistus; the green and red dragons of Raymond Lully have also been obedient to me, and the illustrious sages themselves deign to visit me; yet is it but since I had the honour to be known to your ladyship, that I have been so fortunate as to obtain the grand secret of projection.

    The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

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  • green as emeralds

    December 2, 2007

  • Any green gemstone, such as the emerald.

    July 7, 2018