adj
Meaning 1
Of a dark red colour.
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Standard Lemma guide
garnet
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name
Meaning 2
A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
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name
Meaning 3
An unincorporated community in Mackinac County, Michigan, United States.
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name
Meaning 4
A ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States.
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name
Meaning 5
An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.
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name
Meaning 6
A female given name from French.
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name
Meaning 7
The ship of characters Ruby and Sapphire from the Steven Universe series, who combine to create the character Garnet.
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Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle
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Synonyms: Rupphire
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noun
Meaning 8
A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 9
A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out of a vessel.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 11
To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 12
any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
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Broader terms: mineral, transparent gem
Narrower terms: almandite, almandine, andradite, carbuncle, cinnamon stone, essonite, hessonite, pyrope, rhodolite
History
Etymology
From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.
Named after the garnet gemstone.
Across languages
Translations
70 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: granaat — mineral
- Arabic: بِجَادِيّ (bijādiyy) — mineral
- Armenian: նռնաքար (nṙnakʻar) — mineral
- Azerbaijani: qranat — mineral
- Bengali: তামড়ি (tamṛi) — mineral
- Bulgarian: гранат (granat) — mineral
- Burmese: ဂေါ်မိတ် (gaumit) — mineral
- Catalan: granat — mineral
- Chinese Mandarin: 石榴石 (shíliùshí) — mineral
- Czech: granát — mineral
- Dutch: granaat — mineral
- Esperanto: grenato — mineral
- Estonian: granaadid — mineral
- Finnish: granaatti — mineral
- French: grenat — mineral
- Georgian: გრანატი (granaṭi) — mineral
- German: Granat — mineral
- Greek: λυχνίτης (lychnítis) — mineral
- Ancient Greek: λυχνίτης (lukhnítēs) — mineral
- Hindi: याक़ूत (yāqūt) — mineral
- Hindi: याकूत (yākūt) — mineral
- Hindi: गोमेद (gomed) — mineral
- Hindi: गोमेधक (gomedhak) — mineral
- Hindi: गोमेदक (gomedak) — mineral
- Irish: gairnéad — mineral
- Italian: granato — mineral
- Italian: granata — mineral
- Japanese: 柘榴石 — mineral
- Japanese: ガーネット (gānetto) — mineral
- Kazakh: анартас (anartas) — mineral
- Korean: 석류석 (seongnyuseok) — mineral
- Korean: 자류석 (jaryuseok) — mineral
- Korean: 가닛 (ganit) — mineral
- Kyrgyz: анар таш (anar taş) — mineral
- Māori: kāreti — mineral
- Persian: بیجاده (bijâde) — mineral
- Polish: granat — mineral
- Portuguese: granada — mineral
- Romanian: granat — mineral
- Russian: грана́т (granát) — mineral
- Serbo-Croatian: granat — mineral
- Spanish: granate — mineral
- Swedish: granat — mineral
- Tagalog: granate — mineral
- Tamil: கோமேதகம் (kōmētakam) — mineral
- Thai: โกเมน (kōmēn) — mineral
- Turkish: grena — mineral
- Turkish: lal taşı — mineral
- Ukrainian: грана́т (hranát) — mineral
- Urdu: یاقوت (yāqūt) — mineral
- Welsh: garned — mineral
- Bulgarian: тъмно червен (tǎmno červen) — colour
- Catalan: granat — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 石榴色 (shíliùsè) — colour
- Finnish: granaatinpunainen — colour
- Finnish: tummanpunainen — colour
- French: grenat — colour
- Georgian: გრანატისფერი (granaṭisperi) — colour
- Georgian: ძოწისფერი (ʒoc̣isperi) — colour
- German: Granat — colour
- German: Granatrot — colour
- Greek: γκρενά (gkrená) — colour
- Japanese: ガーネット色 (gānettoshoku) — colour
- Persian: بیجادهگون (bijâde-gun) — colour
- Polish: kolor ciemnoczerwony — colour
- Portuguese: grená — colour
- Russian: грана́товый (granátovyj) — colour
- Spanish: granate — colour
- Tagalog: granate — colour
- Turkish: lal — colour
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