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   diamond

   /ˈdʌɪəmənd/

   noun

   • 1. a precious stone consisting of a clear and colourless crystalline form of pure carbon, the hardest naturally occurring substance: "a diamond ring"
   • ▪ a tool with a small diamond for cutting glass.
   • ▪ an excellent or very special person or thing: informal British "Fred's a diamond"
   • 2. a figure with four straight sides of equal length forming two opposite acute angles and two opposite obtuse angles; a rhombus: "a sweater with a pale-blue diamond pattern"
   • ▪ one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a red diamond.
   • ▪ a card of the suit of diamonds: "she led a losing diamond"
   • ▪ the area delimited by the four bases of a baseball field, forming a square shape.
   • ▪ a baseball field.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French diamant, from medieval Latin diamas, diamant-, variant of Latin adamans (see adamant).

   Derivatives

   • 1. diamondiferous adjective

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