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crystal

//ˈkɹɪstəl//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Note for crystal

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Forms

Plural
crystals

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.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.

  2. 2.A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.

  3. 3.A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.

  4. 4.Crystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride.(slang)

    • He tells me he's been shooting crystal, which I already pretty much know because he does not bother to keep his sleeves rolled down over the needle tracks.

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Very clear; coherent.

    • "Do I make myself clear?" / "Crystal."
  2. 2.Made of crystal.

    • The walls were crystal, and they seemed to have hundreds of different-colored lights shifting behind them.
    • The uneven floor was crystal as well, as if there once had been huge crystals jutting up here, too, but ones that had been broken away and the surface crudely adzed.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3772

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

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Etymology

From Middle English crystal, cristal, criȝstall, representing a merger of Old English cristalla (from Latin crystallus) and Anglo-Norman cristall, Old French cristal (from Latin crystallum).

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