Ambre — meaning in English
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English meaning
- amber noun A hard, translucent, yellow-to-brown fossilized tree resin, used in jewellery and sometimes containing preserved insects.
Senses
Ambre is used for these senses in English:
- Amber A en given name, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
- amber Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
- amber 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. [from 15th c.]
- amber A yellow-orange colour.
- amber (British, AU) 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.
amber — full definition
- noun A hard, translucent, yellow-to-brown fossilized tree resin, used in jewellery and sometimes containing preserved insects.
- noun A yellowish-orange colour, like that of the resin.
- noun The middle light of a traffic signal, signalling drivers to stop if it is safe to do so.
- adj Of a brownish-yellow colour.