Definition of diamond

"diamond" in the noun sense

1. diamond

a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

2. diamond, adamant

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

3. rhombus, rhomb, diamond

a parallelogram with four equal sides an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram

4. diamond

a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it

"he led a small diamond"

"diamonds were trumps"

5. baseball diamond, diamond, infield

the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate

6. ball field, baseball field, diamond

the baseball playing field

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Quotations for diamond

Diamonds cut diamonds. [ Tamil ]

Diamonds are best plain set. [ Rolle ]

A fine diamond may be ill set. [ Proverb ]

The lively Diamond drinks thy purest rays.
Collected light, compact. [ Thomson ]

Wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead. [ Proverb ]

A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man. [ Proverb ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock. [ Proverb ]

A diamond is valuable though it lie on a dunghill. [ Proverb ]

A rough diamond is better than the polished paste. [ Tupper ]

A diamond polished was first a diamond in the rough. [ G. W. Doane ]

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. [ Chinese Proverb ]

It looks as well as a diamond necklace about a sow's neck. [ Proverb ]

Character is the diamond that scratches every other stone. [ C. A. Bartol ]

If a diamond be thrown into the mud, it is a diamond still. [ Ahmed Vesik ]

Diamonds are not only dug for, but sometimes worn by slaves! [ Richter ]

It is almost as easy to find a true diamond, as a true friend. [ Proverb ]

The diamond, though small, is a heavy load for a poor man to carry. [ Ejik ]

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. [ W. R. Alger ]

Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond, and must be polished ere he shine. [ Dryden ]

True friendship, like a diamond, radiates steadily from its transparent heart. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

A diamond, though set in horn, is still a diamond, and sparkles as in purest gold. [ Massinger ]

Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace. [ Crashaw ]

Wisdom and virtue are the greatest beauty, but it is an advantage to a diamond to be well set. [ Matthew Henry ]

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. [ J. Roux ]

The first tear of love that one causes to be shed is a diamond, the second a pearl, the third - a tear. [ A. Poincelot ]

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. [ Confucius ]

Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices, but then no one would use the article second-hand! [ Balzac ]

The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all; among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation. [ Lewis Vertoman ]

The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary. [ F. A. Durivage ]

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden underfoot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? [ Mrs. Stowe ]

The diamond is more valuable than any other stone, and vastly superior to all others in lustre and beauty; as also in hardness, which renders it more durable and lasting. [ Woodward ]

Thinkers are as scarce as gold; but he whose thought embraces all his subject, who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. [ Lavater ]

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. [ Bacon ]

To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be. [ Garcias ab Horto ]

As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character, too. [ C. A. Bartol ]

Even the grasses in exposed fields were bung with innumerable diamond pendants, which jingled merrily when brushed by the foot of the traveler. * * * It was as if some superincumbent stratum of the earth had been removed in the night, exposing to light a bed of untarnished crystals. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon. But even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him. It is the lapidary that gives value to the diamond, which the peasant has dug up without knowing its worth. [ Abbe Raynal ]

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. [ Carlyle ]

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]

diamond in Scrabble®

The word diamond is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters diamond:

DIAMOND
(94 = 44 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word diamond

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In diamond

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diamond in Words With Friends™

The word diamond is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters diamond:

DIAMOND
(110 = 75 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

diamond

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word diamond

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In diamond

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Words within the letters of diamond

2 letter words in diamond (11 words)

3 letter words in diamond (17 words)

4 letter words in diamond (8 words)

5 letter words in diamond (4 words)

6 letter words in diamond (1 word)

7 letter words in diamond (1 word)

diamond + 1 blank (3 words)

diamond + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence diamond

Words with diamond in them (2 words)

Words that end with diamond (2 words)

Word Growth involving diamond

Shorter words in diamond

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Longer words containing diamond

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diamondoid diamondoids

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