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# jewel

«jewel» in Mova's school dictionary: **A precious stone, such as a diamond, ruby or emerald…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a jewel, jewels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A precious stone, such as a diamond, ruby or emerald, often cut to shine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#m1)

2) A piece of jewellery with such a stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#m2)

3) Someone or something very special and valuable (she is a jewel; the jewel of the city). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories: pirates hide jewels in treasure chests; a crown has jewels in it. In science (rocks and minerals) jewels are gemstones dug out of the ground. Phrases: crown jewels, jewel in the crown (the best part), a real jewel.

### examples

- The queen's crown sparkled with jewels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#x1)
- The pirate found a box of gold and jewels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#x2)
- A ruby is a red jewel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#x3)
- This little park is the jewel of our town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#x4)
- Grandma's ring has a tiny blue jewel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#x5)
- You're a jewel for helping me, thanks! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#x6)
- The crown jewels are kept in the Tower of London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#x7)
- This jewel was called the philosopher's stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/#x8)

### note

Countable noun. Related: jewellery (UK, Ireland, Australia) or jewelry (USA, Canada) = all rings, necklaces and so on; jeweller (UK) / jeweler (USA) = the person who sells or makes them. Do not say "a jewellery"; say "a piece of jewellery".

### In the corpora

- [And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1145/)
- [the rings, and the nose-jewels;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.77/)
- [They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.597/)
- [There is gold, and a multitude of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.573/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jewel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jewel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.