adj
Meaning 1
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
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Standard Lemma guide
amber
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈæm.bəː/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈæm.bəː]
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/ˈæm.bəː/ without æ-raising
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[ˈæm.bəː] ~ [ˈæm.bɐ̝ː] without æ-raising
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/ˈɛːm.bəː/ æ-raising
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[ˈɛːm.bəː] ~ [ˈɛːm.bɐ̝ː] æ-raising
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/ˈæm.bɚ/ without æ-raising
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[ˈæm.bɚ] ~ [ˈæm.bɹ̩] without æ-raising
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/ˈeə̯m.bɚ/ æ-raising
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[ˈeə̯m.bɚ] ~ [ˈeə̯m.bɹ̩] æ-raising
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/ˈɛə̯m.bɚ/ æ-raising
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[ˈɛə̯m.bɚ] ~ [ˈɛə̯m.bɹ̩] æ-raising
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rhymes with -æmbə(ɹ)
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UK: /ˈæm.bə/
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US: ăm'bər
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US: /ˈæm.bɚ/
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homophone: amber
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CMU ARPABET: AE1 M B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
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name
Meaning 3
A surname of uncertain origin.
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name
Meaning 4
A male given name from Hindi.
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name
Meaning 5
A city in Rajasthan, India, also known as Amer.
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name
Meaning 6
A river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Derwent at Ambergate.
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name
Meaning 7
Synonym of Ambel (“language”).
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Synonyms: Ambel
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noun
Meaning 8
Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 11
A yellow-orange colour.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 12
The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
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Usage: Australia, Commonwealth, UK, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 13
The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, genetics, medicine, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
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noun
Meaning 14
Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
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Usage: uncountable
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verb
Meaning 15
To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
Examples
- ambered wine, an ambered room
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verb
Meaning 16
To preserve in amber.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
Examples
- an ambered fly
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verb
Meaning 17
To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary, poetic, rare, transitive
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verb
Meaning 18
To take on the yellow colour of amber.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, literary, poetic, rare
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adjective satellite
Meaning 19
of a medium to dark brownish yellow color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: brownish-yellow, yellow-brown
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 20
a deep yellow color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an amber light illuminated the room
- he admired the gold of her hair
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Synonyms: gold
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: yellow, yellowness
noun
Meaning 21
a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: natural resin
History
Etymology
From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /ambar/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade”). * The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".
From amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”).
Borrowed from Hindi अंबर (ambar).
From a pre-Celtic word.
Across languages
Translations
231 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: буршты́навы (burštýnavy) — of a brownish yellow colour
- Bulgarian: кехлиба́рен (kehlibáren) — of a brownish yellow colour
- Catalan: ambrat — of a brownish yellow colour
- Danish: ravfarvet — of a brownish yellow colour
- Danish: ravgul — of a brownish yellow colour
- Danish: ravgylden — of a brownish yellow colour
- Dutch: amberkleurig — of a brownish yellow colour
- Esperanto: sukcenkolora — of a brownish yellow colour
- Finnish: kullanruskea — of a brownish yellow colour
- Finnish: meripihkanvärinen — of a brownish yellow colour
- French: ambré — of a brownish yellow colour
- Friulian: ambrât — of a brownish yellow colour
- Galician: ambreino — of a brownish yellow colour
- Galician: ambarino — of a brownish yellow colour
- German: bernsteinen — of a brownish yellow colour
- Greek: κεχριμπαρένιος (kechrimparénios) — of a brownish yellow colour
- Hungarian: borostyánsárga — of a brownish yellow colour
- Irish: ómrach — of a brownish yellow colour
- Italian: ambrato — of a brownish yellow colour
- Lithuanian: gintarinis — of a brownish yellow colour
- Norwegian: ravgul — of a brownish yellow colour
- Pannonian Rusyn: янтарни (jantarni) — of a brownish yellow colour
- Persian: کهربایی (kahrobâyi) — of a brownish yellow colour
- Polish: bursztynowy — of a brownish yellow colour
- Portuguese: âmbar — of a brownish yellow colour
- Portuguese: ambarino — of a brownish yellow colour
- Russian: янта́рный (jantárnyj) — of a brownish yellow colour
- Slovak: jantárový — of a brownish yellow colour
- Spanish: ambarino — of a brownish yellow colour
- Spanish: de color ámbar — of a brownish yellow colour
- Swedish: bärnstensfärgad — of a brownish yellow colour
- Ukrainian: янта́рний (jantárnyj) — of a brownish yellow colour
- Ukrainian: бурштино́вий (burštynóvyj) — of a brownish yellow colour
- Dutch: Amber — female given name
- French: Ambre — female given name
- German: Amber — female given name
- Italian: Ambra — female given name
- Japanese: アンバー (Anbā) — female given name
- Latvian: Dzintra — female given name
- Marathi: अँबर (aĕmbar) — female given name
- Afrikaans: barnsteen — fossil resin
- Albanian: qelibar — fossil resin
- Amharic: ሙጫ (muč̣a) — fossil resin
- Arabic: كَهْرَمَان (kahramān) — fossil resin
- Arabic: كهرمان (kahramān) — fossil resin
- Aragonese: ambre — fossil resin
- Armenian: սաթ (satʻ) — fossil resin
- Assamese: জাংফাই (zaṅphai) — fossil resin
- Asturian: ámbare — fossil resin
- Azerbaijani: kəhrəba — fossil resin
- Basque: anbar — fossil resin
- Belarusian: буршты́н (burštýn) — fossil resin
- Belarusian: янта́р (jantár) — fossil resin
- Bengali: অম্বর (ombor) — fossil resin
- Bulgarian: кехлиба́р (kehlibár) — fossil resin
- Bulgarian: янта́р (jantár) — fossil resin
- Burmese: ပယင်း (pa.yang:) — fossil resin
- Catalan: ambre — fossil resin
- Chinese Mandarin: 琥珀 (hǔpò) — fossil resin
- Czech: jantar — fossil resin
- Danish: rav — fossil resin
- Daur: xuubii — fossil resin
- Dutch: barnsteen — fossil resin
- Dutch: amber — fossil resin
- Esperanto: sukceno — fossil resin
- Estonian: merevaik — fossil resin
- Faroese: rav — fossil resin
- Finnish: meripihka — fossil resin
- French: ambre — fossil resin
- French: ambre jaune — fossil resin
- Friulian: ambre — fossil resin
- Galician: ambre — fossil resin
- Galician: alambre — fossil resin
- Galician: ámbar — fossil resin
- Georgian: ქარვა (karva) — fossil resin
- German: Bernstein — fossil resin
- Greek: κεχριμπάρι (kechrimpári) — fossil resin
- Ancient Greek: ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron) — fossil resin
- Hebrew: ענבר (ʻinbar) — fossil resin
- Hindi: एम्बर (embar) — fossil resin
- Hungarian: borostyán — fossil resin
- Hungarian: borostyánkő — fossil resin
- Icelandic: raf — fossil resin
- Ido: sucino — fossil resin
- Indonesian: amber — fossil resin
- Irish: ómra — fossil resin
- Italian: ambra — fossil resin
- Japanese: 琥珀 (kohaku) — fossil resin
- Kalmyk: хув (xuv) — fossil resin
- Kashubian: jantôr — fossil resin
- Kashubian: bùrsztin — fossil resin
- Kazakh: кәріптас (kärıptas) — fossil resin
- Khmer: ដៃរគៀម (day rɔkiəm) — fossil resin
- Korean: 호박 (hobak) — fossil resin
- Kumyk: кагьраба (kahraba) — fossil resin
- Central Kurdish: کارهبا (kareba) — fossil resin
- Northern Kurdish: karîban — fossil resin
- Northern Kurdish: kehrîban — fossil resin
- Kyrgyz: янтарь (yantar) — fossil resin
- Lak: кагьруба (kahruba) — fossil resin
- Lao: ອໍາພັນ (ʼam phan) — fossil resin
- Latgalian: dzyntars — fossil resin
- Latin: succinum — fossil resin
- Latin: sūcinum — fossil resin
- Latin: glaesum — fossil resin
- Latin: ēlectrum — fossil resin
- Latvian: dzintars — fossil resin
- Lezgi: кагьраба (kahraba) — fossil resin
- Limburgish: barnsjtèè — fossil resin
- Lithuanian: gintaras — fossil resin
- Macedonian: килибар (kilibar) — fossil resin
- Macedonian: јантар (jantar) — fossil resin
- Malay: anbar — fossil resin
- Malay: ambar — fossil resin
- Maltese: għanbar — fossil resin
- Māori: tahetoka — fossil resin
- Māori: tarawai totoka — fossil resin
- Māori: amipera — fossil resin
- Marathi: अंबर (ambar) — fossil resin
- Mongolian: хув (xuv) — fossil resin
- Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠪᠠ (quba) — fossil resin
- Classical Nahuatl: apozonalli — fossil resin
- Navajo: tséjééʼ — fossil resin
- Norwegian: rav — fossil resin
- Occitan: ambre — fossil resin
- Old English: eolhsand — fossil resin
- Ossetian: дзиндзи (ʒinʒi) — fossil resin
- Pannonian Rusyn: янтар (jantar) — fossil resin
- Pashto: کهربا (kahrūbā́) — fossil resin
- Pashto: اکربه (akrába) — fossil resin
- Persian: کهربا (kahrobâ) — fossil resin
- Polish: bursztyn — fossil resin
- Polish: jantar — fossil resin
- Portuguese: âmbar — fossil resin
- Portuguese: alambre — fossil resin
- Romanian: chihlimbar — fossil resin
- Romanian: ambră — fossil resin
- Russian: янта́рь (jantárʹ) — fossil resin
- Serbo-Croatian: јантар — fossil resin
- Serbo-Croatian: jantar — fossil resin
- Slovak: jantár — fossil resin
- Slovene: jántar — fossil resin
- Lower Sorbian: jantaŕ — fossil resin
- Spanish: ámbar — fossil resin
- Sudovian: gentaras — fossil resin
- Swahili: kaharabu — fossil resin
- Swedish: bärnsten — fossil resin
- Tagalog: ambar — fossil resin
- Tajik: каҳрабо (kahrabo) — fossil resin
- Tatar: гәрәбә (gäräbä) — fossil resin
- Tatar: гамбәр (ğämbär) — fossil resin
- Thai: อําพัน (am-pan) — fossil resin
- Turkish: kehribar — fossil resin
- Turkish: kılkapan — fossil resin
- Turkish: samankapan — fossil resin
- Turkmen: ýantar — fossil resin
- Udmurt: изсир (izśir) — fossil resin
- Ukrainian: буршти́н (burštýn) — fossil resin
- Ukrainian: янта́р (jantár) — fossil resin
- Uyghur: كەھرىبا (kehriba) — fossil resin
- Uyghur: قەھرىۋا (qehriwa) — fossil resin
- Uzbek: kahrabo — fossil resin
- Vietnamese: hổ phách — fossil resin
- Volapük: mabar — fossil resin
- Welsh: ambr — fossil resin
- Middle Welsh: gwefr — fossil resin
- Yiddish: בורשטין (burshtin) — fossil resin
- Yucatec Maya: k'aank'an — fossil resin
- Zazaki: kehribar (diq) — fossil resin
- Zazaki: amber — fossil resin
- Zhuang: hujbwz — fossil resin
- Arabic: كَهْرَمَانِي (kahramānī) — colour
- Bulgarian: кехлиба́р (kehlibár) — colour
- Catalan: ambre — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 琥珀色 (hǔpòsè) — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 淡黃色 /淡黄色 (dànhuángsè) — colour
- Czech: jantarový — colour
- Danish: ravgul — colour
- Danish: ravfarve — colour
- Dutch: barnsteengeel — colour
- Dutch: barnsteenkleur — colour
- Dutch: amber — colour
- Esperanto: sukcenkoloro — colour
- Finnish: meripihkan värinen — colour
- Finnish: meripihkanvärinen — colour
- Finnish: ruskeankeltainen — colour
- French: couleur d'ambre — colour
- Galician: ambarino — colour
- Galician: ambreino — colour
- German: Bernsteingelb — colour
- Greek: κεχριμπαρένιο (kechrimparénio) — colour
- Ancient Greek: χαροπός (kharopós) — colour
- Hungarian: borostyánsárga — colour
- Ido: sucinea — colour
- Italian: ambra — colour
- Japanese: 琥珀色 (kohakuiro) — colour
- Khmer: ពណ៌លឿងទុំដូចមាស (poa lɨəng tum dooc mieh) — colour
- Lithuanian: gintarinė — colour
- Maltese: ambra — colour
- Norwegian: ravgult — colour
- Persian: کهربایی (kahrobâyi) — colour
- Polish: bursztyn — colour
- Portuguese: âmbar — colour
- Russian: янта́рный (jantárnyj) — colour
- Spanish: ámbar — colour
- Turkish: kehribar rengi — colour
- Zazaki: amberane — colour
- Bulgarian: жълто (žǎlto) — traffic light colour
- Catalan: ambre — traffic light colour
- Catalan: groc — traffic light colour
- Czech: žlutá — traffic light colour
- Danish: gul — traffic light colour
- Dutch: oranje — traffic light colour
- Finnish: keltainen — traffic light colour
- French: feu orange — traffic light colour
- German: Gelb — traffic light colour
- Greek: πορτοκαλί (portokalí) — traffic light colour
- Hungarian: sárga — traffic light colour
- Italian: giallo — traffic light colour
- Latvian: dzeltena — traffic light colour
- Lithuanian: geltona — traffic light colour
- Maltese: isfar — traffic light colour
- Norwegian: gult — traffic light colour
- Persian: زرد (zard) — traffic light colour
- Polish: żółte — traffic light colour
- Portuguese: amarelo — traffic light colour
- Russian: жёлтый — traffic light colour
- Spanish: ámbar — traffic light colour
- Swedish: gul — traffic light colour
- Turkish: sarı — traffic light colour
- Zazaki: zerdane — traffic light colour
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