Victor_amelkin Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
"A piece of jewelry" – any synonyms?
Hello,
Could you please say, are there any good synonyms for "a piece of jewelry" (a ring, necklace, etc.)? Could I say simply "jewelry" refering to a single instance but not to the whole class of objects? Does "a precious thing/item" fit? Any of your variants are welcome.
[Edited] My dictionary also provides the word "jewel" as a synonym for "a piece of jewelry", but in the same time "jewel" denotes a (semi)precious stone. It seems quite strange that a single word refers to both a precious stone and brooch...
Thanks in advance.
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Victor
Could you please say, are there any good synonyms for "a piece of jewelry" (a ring, necklace, etc.)? Could I say simply "jewelry" refering to a single instance but not to the whole class of objects? Does "a precious thing/item" fit? Any of your variants are welcome.
[Edited] My dictionary also provides the word "jewel" as a synonym for "a piece of jewelry", but in the same time "jewel" denotes a (semi)precious stone. It seems quite strange that a single word refers to both a precious stone and brooch...
Thanks in advance.
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Victor
Top answer
Brooch, ring, necklace etc are types of jewellery rather than a synonym. I'm not sure there is a synonym for pieces of jewellery.
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Brooch, ring, necklace etc are types of jewellery rather than a synonym. I'm not sure there is a synonym for pieces of jewellery.
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Hello Dave,
Thanks for the comments. I had better not include names of particular
types of jewelry here, since due to their presence I was misunderstood. =)
What I'm looking for is not a synonym for a ring, necklace, and so forth
but a synonym for a general all-types-of-jewelry-inclusive term "a piece
of jewelry".
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Victor
Thanks for the comments. I had better not include names of particular
types of jewelry here, since due to their presence I was misunderstood. =)
What I'm looking for is not a synonym for a ring, necklace, and so forth
but a synonym for a general all-types-of-jewelry-inclusive term "a piece
of jewelry".
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Victor
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