adamante — meaning in English

English meaning

• adamant adj Refusing to change one's mind or position; firmly determined.
• diamond noun An extremely hard, clear crystal form of carbon, prized as a gemstone.

Senses

adamante is used for these senses in English:

• adamant An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
• diamond (uncountable) A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.

adamant — full definition

1. adj Refusing to change one's mind or position; firmly determined.
2. noun A legendary stone or mineral once believed to be unbreakable, historically linked to diamond or lodestone.

diamond — full definition

1. noun An extremely hard, clear crystal form of carbon, prized as a gemstone.
2. noun A four-sided shape with two pairs of equal angles, standing on one of its points (a rhombus).
3. noun One of the four suits in a standard deck of playing cards, marked with a red diamond shape.
4. noun The infield of a baseball field, which is diamond-shaped.
5. adj Marking a sixtieth (or, in some uses, seventy-fifth) wedding anniversary.

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