English Dictionary

gem

IPA（発音記号）

/d͡ʒɛm/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法 廃用 稀用

A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. / (figuratively) Any precious or highly valued thing or person.

日本語の意味

宝石：美しさや輝きを持つ高価で貴重な石 / 比喩的に、非常に価値のあるものやかけがえのない人物・物

She inherited a rare blue gem that sparkled in the sunlight.

彼女は日差しにきらめく希少な青い宝石を受け継いだ。

意味（1）

A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.

And on her head she wore a tyre of gold, Adornd with gemmes and owches wondrous fayre, Whose passing price vneath was to be told;

意味（2）

(figuratively) Any precious or highly valued thing or person.

She's an absolute gem.

意味（3）

Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.

a gem of wit

意味（4）

(obsolete) A gemma or leaf-bud.

Then from the Joynts of thy prolifick Stemm A swelling Knot is raised (call’d a Gemm)

意味（5）

A type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata.

意味（6）

(computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.

意味（7）

(uncountable, printing, uncommon, obsolete) A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.

gems （ plural ）