diamond

diamond
noun
1》 a precious stone consisting of a clear and colourless crystalline form of pure carbon, the hardest naturally occurring substance.
2》 a figure with four straight sides of equal length forming two opposite acute angles and two opposite obtuse angles; a rhombus.
3》 (diamonds) one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a red figure of such a shape.
    ↘a card of this suit.
4》 a baseball field.
5》 a railway crossing in which two tracks cross over each other at an acute angle.
Phrases
diamond in the rough North American term for rough diamond.
Derivatives
diamondiferous -'dɪf(ə)rəs adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr. diamant, from med. L. diamas, diamant-, var. of L. adamans (see adamant).

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