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amber

/ˈæm.bɚ/

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What does amber mean?

noun

  1. 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.
  2. A yellow-orange colour.
  3. 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.
More meanings (15)

noun

  1. The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
  2. Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
  3. (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
  4. (obsolete) Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.

adjective

  1. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

proper noun

  1. A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
  2. A surname of uncertain origin.
  3. A male given name from Hindi.
  4. A city in Rajasthan, India, also known as Amer.
  5. A river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Derwent at Ambergate.
  6. Synonym of Ambel (“language”).

verb

  1. (rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
  2. (rare) To preserve in amber.
  3. (literary, rare) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
  4. (literary, rare) To take on the yellow colour of amber.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈæm.bɚ/

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Beyond, the harvest hills were basking in an amber sunset radiance, under a pale, aerial sky of rose and blue.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of the IslandProject Gutenberg ebook #51
Ivory, coral, amber, bone, tortoise shell, malachite, etc., are so closely imitated that the imitation can only be detected by analysis.
Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) WilliamsAn Introduction to Chemical ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #3708
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He put the amber elephant on the piano beside him and seemed to get a great deal of amusement out of the beast.
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
Beyond the black hills an amber west passed into pale green, and then to a deep blue in which a great star hung.
Edith WhartonSummerProject Gutenberg ebook #166
It burned, a little went the wrong way and it strangled, but the joy of ejecting a series of amber projectiles was Clifford's.
Robert S. (Robert Sproul) CarrollOur Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of NervousnessProject Gutenberg ebook #5994