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crystal
/ˈkɹɪstəl/
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What does crystal mean?
noun
- A solid composed of an array of atoms or molecules possessing long-range order and arranged in a pattern which is periodic in three dimensions.
- A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
- A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
More meanings (13)
noun
- (slang) Crystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride.
- The glass over the dial of a watch case.
- (figuratively, obsolete) A person's eye.
adjective
- Made of crystal.
- (figuratively) Very clear; coherent.
proper noun
- A female given name from English.
- A surname.
- A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
- A town in Maine.
- A city in Minnesota.
- A census-designated place in New Mexico.
- A city and town in North Dakota.
- A town in Wisconsin.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɹɪstəl/
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But a short distance from the circular chamber we came suddenly into a brilliantly lighted labyrinth of crystal glass partitioned passages.
The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow.
More book examples (3)
This stone was about the size and something the shape of a small lemon, looking like a smoothed lump of semi-transparent crystal.
It was as if a fracture in delicate crystal had begun, and he was afraid of any movement that might make it fatal.
There were silver and gold, as she had said there would be, and crystal which glittered like the gems which the women wore.