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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several vines or shrubs of the genus Jasminum, native chiefly to Asia and having usually compound leaves and white or yellow flowers. Some of the fragrant species are used in making perfume.
  2. n. The perfume obtained from these plants.
  3. n. See Carolina jasmine.
  4. n. Any of several plants or shrubs having fragrant flowers.
  5. n. A light to brilliant yellow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A plant of the genus Jasminum.
  2. n. The red morning-glory, Quamoclit coccinea.
  3. n. In the West Indies, Faramea odoratissima, a shrub or small tree of the madder family, one of the plants called wild coffee; species of the genus Ixora (which see).

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several plants, of the genus Jasminum, mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers.
  2. n. The perfume obtained from these plants.
  3. n. Any of several unrelated plants having a similar perfume.
  4. n. A yellow colour.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The Jasminum officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is Jasminum Sambac, and, with Jasminum angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia

Etymologies

  1. French jasmin, from Arabic يسمين (yasmīn), from Persian یاسمین (yâsamin), from Middle Persian 𐭩𐭠𐭮𐭬𐭭 (yāsmin). (Wiktionary)
  2. French jasmin, from Old French jassemin, from Arabic yasmīn, from Persian yasmīn, yāsman, from Middle Persian yāsman. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The term "jasmine gatherings" comes from the protests in Tunisia that ousted long-time President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January in what supporters there called a "Jasmine Revolution.”

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  • “The reference to the word jasmine is the name some have attached to widespread anti-government protests that have swept through Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other countries in the Middle East.”

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  • “Meanwhile, any reference to Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution and even the word jasmine was censored in text messages and on search engines.”

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  • “The authorities might have a hard time eradicating the word jasmine completely," the reports, citing the popularity of the word in China.”

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  • “Carlos Barria/Reuters The government deployed extra police to the planned protest sites, deleted almost all online discussion of the appeal, blocked searches for the word 'jasmine' on micro-blogging and other sites, and temporarily disabled mass text-messaging services.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Call for a 'Jasmine Revolution'

  • “The word "jasmine" has been censored from many websites, the newspaper says.”

    USA Today: Chinese activists disappear amid calls for protests

  • “The word "jasmine" has been censored from many websites, the newspaper reports.”

    USA Today: China cracks down to prevent 'Jasmine Revolution'

  • “Dozens of activists were detained, mass text messages were jammed and searches for the word "jasmine" were blocked on Chinese micro-blogging websites after a mysterious call to revolt spread over Twitter and other social-networking sites on Saturday and Sunday.”

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  • “The calls have apparently led the Chinese government to censor postings containing the word "jasmine" in an attempt to quell any potential unrest.”

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  • “Searches for the word "jasmine" were blocked Saturday on China's largest Twitter-like microblog, and the website where the request first appeared said it was hit by an attack.”

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equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘jasmine’

  1. cape jessamine

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. shrub
  1. bush

hyponyms (10)

Words that are more specific

  1. primrose jasmine
  2. jasminum sambac
  1. jessamine
  2. winter jasmine
  1. jasminum officinale
  2. common jasmine
  1. jasminum nudiflorum
  2. arabian jasmine
  1. true jasmine
  2. jasminum mesnyi

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  1. honeysuckle
  2. lilac
  3. geranium
  4. gardenia
  1. sandalwood
  2. jessamine
  3. heliotrope
  4. musk
  1. hyacinth
  2. mignonette
  3. vanilla
  4. lily
  1. thyme
  2. hawthorn
  3. orchid
  4. ambergris
  1. stephanotis
  2. arbutus
  3. bergamot
  4. acacia

rhymes (6)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Jasmin
  1. Jazmin
  1. Tasman
  1. Yasmin
  1. Yasmine
  1. jazzmen

reverse dictionary (31)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. jessamine
  2. jasmine
  3. androsace
  4. jasmone
  5. Cape jasmine
  6. gelsemic
  1. hirsinghar
  2. mogra
  3. gelsemine
  4. gelseminic
  5. gelsemium
  6. night-flower
  1. sad-tree
  2. frangipane
  3. frangipani
  4. gardenia
  5. jasmine-tree
  6. jeshamy
  1. yellow jessamine
  2. evening trumpet flower
  3. Carolina jasmine
  4. odorous
  5. family oleaceae
  6. genus jasminum
  1. jasminum
  2. Oleaceae
  3. olive family
  4. oleaceous
  5. jessamy
  6. benzyl acetate
  1. buabua

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