Bernstein — meaning in English

English meaning

• amber noun A hard, translucent, yellow-to-brown fossilized tree resin, used in jewellery and sometimes containing preserved insects.
• Bernstein name A German or Yiddish surname, also an English rendering of the Russian surname Bernshtein.

Senses

Bernstein is used for these senses in English:

• Bernstein A surname from German or Yiddish.
• 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 — full definition

1. noun A hard, translucent, yellow-to-brown fossilized tree resin, used in jewellery and sometimes containing preserved insects.
2. noun A yellowish-orange colour, like that of the resin.
3. noun The middle light of a traffic signal, signalling drivers to stop if it is safe to do so.
4. adj Of a brownish-yellow colour.

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