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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A blue to blue-green mineral of aluminum and copper, mainly CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O, prized as a gemstone in its polished blue form.
  2. n. A light to brilliant bluish green.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An opaque blue or greenish-blue precious stone, consisting essentially of a phosphate of aluminium containing a little copper and iron. The true or Oriental turquoise, a favorite ornamental stone in rings and other articles of jewelry, is found in a mountain region in Persia, and was originally brought into western Europe by way of Turkey. A variety found in New Mexico, usually of a greenish-blue color, is also used in jewelry. The principal locality is in the Los Cerillos Mountains, where the turquoise was mined by the Indians in very early times. A greenish turquoise is also found in Nevada. See bone-turquoise.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
  2. n. A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.
  3. adj. Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
  4. adj. Having a pale greenish-blue colour.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface.
  2. adj. Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a shade of blue tinged with green
  2. n. a blue to grey green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French turquoise, from Old French (pierre) turqueise ("Turkish (stone)"). The stone was originally brought to Europe from Turkestan. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English turkeis and French turquoise, both from Old French (pierre) turqueise, Turkish (stone), turquoise, feminine of turqueis, Turkish, from Turc, Turk; see Turk. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “GSI pointed out that turquoise is the color of the throat, the voice, communication.”

    Pensée du lundi 1er juin

  • “We also found a second fabulous pair — edgier in turquoise and black — that we instantly dubbed my Berlin glasses.”

    Pensée du lundi 1er juin

  • “Since aqua/turquoise is one of my favorite color types, I think my vote would be on "before".”

    Fun with Dyeing, part 2

  • “I bought yards of plain turquoise, a golden print, and a print with mixtures of pink, purple, red, green and black.”

    Stitching a story

  • “Resplendent in turquoise from forelock to hoof, Trigger and Buttermilk were subsequently elevated to the unlikely role of room-divider ornaments.”

    Home Alone

  • “Shhhhhh, young men in turquoise t-shirts hiss at us.”

    ChangeYourLife! Sdn. Bhd.

  • “When Ser Jaime Alonzo Pietrado ei Villareal arrived, dressed in turquoise doublet and breeches, the Ispaniola-in-Hinirang burst into a thunderous applause.”

    V. At the Plaza Binondo

  • “I have one pair in turquoise that matches many of my outfits but still I'll return to my Tiva walking sandals for summer, SASS closed walking shoes for cool days.”

    Walking, gawking, talking

  • “Well, do you remember a conversation you had with Joyce about it afterward, in which you called the turquoise the 'friendship stone,' because it was true blue?”

    The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor

  • “Overall, turquoise is said to open all chakras, allowing the stone’s powers of love and communication to flow through the entire being.”

    Pensée du lundi 1er juin

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. turquoise blue
  1. greenish blue
  1. blue-green
  1. green-blue

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘turquoise’

  1. turquois

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. blueness
  1. blue
  1. mineral
  1. opaque gem

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. emerald
  2. azure
  3. opal
  1. lavender
  2. sapphire
  3. iridescent
  1. maroon
  2. scarlet
  3. mauve
  1. jade
  2. vermilion
  3. blue-green
  1. sky-blue
  2. translucent
  3. shiny
  1. coral

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. chalchihuitl
  2. Solomon's seal
  3. calaite
  4. kallaite
  1. turcois
  2. turkeis
  3. turkiest
  4. turkis
  1. turkois
  2. odontolite
  3. rock-turquoise
  4. matrix-gem
  1. callais
  2. chalchuite
  3. agaphite
  4. callainite
  1. firoza
  2. bone turquoise
  3. turquoise
  4. tiponi
  1. turkey-stone

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  • fbharjo And turquoise is not in Turkey though its name is derived from it through Old French. Tiffany Co. recognized "turquoise" for its pizzazz in the 30s - in 1837 if I remember correctly - and branded it as their catalog color. Its a different strain of stained glass called Tiffany blue (some call it close to robin's egg blue) but it may also be called a strain of turquoise. What a mythstory (mystery)! You can far see and/or be shortsighted! Feb 1, 2009

  • bilby No-one has claimed Shiraz is in Australia. Feb 1, 2009

  • fbharjo on pizzazzzz - myth is something that perhaps never was but always is - you obviously have never seen a fine bizzzzbee (Bisbee)turquoise or a fine Cerrillos stone. Shiraz is a town in Persia not Australia after all. Feb 1, 2009

  • sarra I am swooning that you mentioned Berlin and Kay. Dec 4, 2008

  • qroqqa The supposed 'pizzazz' connexion looks like the usual far-fetched nonsense possibly inspired by a random vague resemblance to something (eta: presumably Persian piroza "turquoise"). The first use of the word ('pizazz') is in Harper's Bazaar, 1937, claiming to be quoting the editor of the Harvard Lampoon. How Persian or turquoise would get in there is not apparent. Dec 4, 2008

  • sionnach Is there a reference for the putative link between pizzazz and turquoise? All of the online dictionaries I've checked say that pizzazz is of unknown etymology. Dec 4, 2008

  • sionnach Tshakur, spoken on the border between Russia and Azerbaijan, is the only language known which has a basic color term for turquoise.

    (According to Berlin and Kay, the linguists who introduced the idea, to be considered a basic color term, a word has to be monoleximic - "green", but not "light green" or "forest green", high-frequency, and agreed upon by speakers of that language; this last point can be ambiguous, as native speakers may not always agree with each other). Dec 4, 2008

  • fbharjo the word pizzazz is from the Farsi word used to describe the color of an exceptional piece of turquoise Oct 18, 2008

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