Definition of Diamond

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Diamond

A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.

A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.

One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.

A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.

The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.

The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.

Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.

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Diamond Quotations

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo

Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
Larry David

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
Horace Mann

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Tina Fey

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Diamond Translations

diamond in Afrikaans is diamant
diamond in Danish is diamant
diamond in Dutch is diamant
diamond in French is diamant
diamond in German is Stern, Diamant
diamond in Italian is diamante
diamond in Norwegian is diamant
diamond in Portuguese is diamante
diamond in Spanish is diamante
diamond in Swedish is diamant

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