Azure

Definition: Azure

Azure

Adjective

1. Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather".

Noun

1. A light shade of blue.

Verb

1. Color azure; "Morning azured the village".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Azure" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "sky blue color".

Date "azure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

Mining

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Synonyms: Azure

Crosswords: Azure

As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Under Azure Skies (1916)

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Books

• Azure Blues (reference)

• Azure Bonds (Forgotten Realms Novel) (reference)

• Azure Days, Quicksilver Nights (Loveswept, No 92) (reference)

• In the Azure over the Squalor: Ransackings and Shorings (reference)

• Rolls-Royce and Bentley: Silver Spirit to Azure 1980-1998 (Acollector's Guide) (reference)

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Music

• Azure d'Or (reference)

• Azure Ray (reference)

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High Tech

• Azure Dreams (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Copco Tuscany Tea Kettle, Azure (reference)

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Islands in the sun Islands, tidal passages, and shoals set in an azure to emerald sea. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Looking through a cannon port towards the azure waters of the southern Gulf of Mexico. These openings also served as air conditioning and let the sea breeze through. Credit: America's Coastlines.

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Her soul soared into the azure on wings of Mechlin lace.

And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters.

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Expressions using "azure": azure aster ♦ azure blue ♦ Azure Stains ♦ azure stone. Additional references.

Beginning with "azure": azure-and-green, azure-blue, azure-chevroned, azure-eyed, azure-lidded, azure-winged.

Ending with "azure": saffron-azure.

Albanian

qiell i pastër, kaltërsi (sky blue), i kaltër (blue, cyanic, sky blue, skyey). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لازوردي, ‏اللازوردي الأزرق السماوي, ‏السماء الصافية (ether), ‏أزرق سماوي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ведро небе (serene), небесносиня боя, небесносин (cerulean, sky blue, skyey), небесна синева, лазурен (blue, liquid, sky blue), лазур (sky blue), безоблачен (clear, serene, unclouded). (various references)

Chinese 

天藍色 , 天�"�色. (various references)

Czech

azur, blankytný (sky blue), blankyt (sky-colour). (various references)

Danish

azur. (various references)

Dutch

azuurblauw. (various references)

Farsi 

لاجوردی , لاجورد, سنگ لاجورد, اسمان نیلگون (Blue), رنگ نیل . (various references)

Finnish

taivaansininen (sky-blue). (various references)

French

azur. (various references)

German

himmelblau (sky blue), azurblau. (various references)

Greek 

κυανόσ (blue, cerulean, cornflower, lapis lazuli), γαλανόσ (blue), αζούρ (clear, open, open worked), ουρανόχρουσ (sky blue). (various references)

Hebrew 

תכלת (blue), תכול (blue), כחול (blue). (various references)

Hungarian

égszínkék (cerulean, sky blue, turquoise, welkin), égbolt (canopy of heaven, cope of heaven, firmament, heaven, sky, vault). (various references)

Indonesian

nilakandi (sapphire, sapphire blue), biru langit (ultra marine). (various references)

Italian

azzurro (blue, sky, sky blue), azurro. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �'�色 (bright blue, lapis lazuli blue), 紺碧 (deep blue). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"�"ぺき (deep blue), るりいろ (bright blue, lapis lazuli blue). (various references)

Manx

gorrym-ghlass (aquamarine, sea-green). (various references)

Pig Latin

azureay

Portuguese

azurro, azul-celeste (sky blue), azular (blue), azul escuro, azul (blue), firmamento (cope of heaven, dome, firmament, heaven, sky, sphere, welkin), cor azul, céu (above, air, blue, empyrean, firmament, heaven, paradise, roof, sky, sphere, welkin), índigo (anil, anil indigo plant, indigo plant). (various references)

Romanian

azuriu, azur (blue), albastru (blue, sapphirine, sky blue), senin (broad, calm, clear, cloudless, fair, fine, happy, mild, peace, serene, serenity, shiny, tranquil, unclouded, unruffled), bleu. (various references)

Russian 

синева, голубой (blue), лазурь (sky blue). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

azuran (cerulean), plavetnilo (blue), plav (blond, blue, cyanic), nebesko modrilo. (various references)

Spanish

azur. (various references)

Swedish

azurblå (azure blue, azure-blue, cerulean), azur, himmelsblå (sky blue). (various references)

Thai

ฟ้าเหมือนท้องฟ้า, สีฟ้าเหมือนท้องฟ้า. (various references)

Turkish

mavi gök, gökyüzü (air, canopy of heaven, ether, heaven, skies, sky, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin), gök mavisi (azure blue, cerulean, sky blue). (various references)

Ukrainian

синява, голубий, лазуровий (sky blue), лазур, блакить (cerulean), блакитний (blue, sky blue). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xanh da trời (celeste, cerulean, sky-blue), trong xanh, m� u xanh da trời bầu trời xanh ngắt, bầu trời trong xanh đá da trời. (various references)

Welsh

asur, glas y ffurfafen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "azure": azures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Azure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acure, agure, Aizpuru, ajure, amulree, amure, anuer, anzere, apure, Arur, Aruru, asire, asre, asture, Asue, asure, ature, audre, aure, aurei, auz, ayure, Ayuru, Azadeh, azaire, azar, Azara, azer, Azeredo, azir, Aziru, Azize, azoe, azone, azor, azore, azori, azour, azra, azraq, azuire, azule, azur, Azura, azuree, azurer, azusre, Azzara, Azzaro, Azzura, Azzuro, casure, Cazire, Erzurum, ezure, Ezzard, fasure, Izgrev, jaure, Mazrui, Mazure, Mazuri, Nazare, Nazarev, Ozgur, ozure, ozyrev, Raizure, zare, Zura, zure. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: raze, urea.

-2 letters: are, ear, eau, era, rue.

-3 letters: ae, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: azures.

+2 letters: azurite, gauzier, unrazed.

+3 letters: azurites, curarize, gazumper, lazurite, quartzes, quatorze, queazier, ruralize, suzerain, urbanize, zarzuela.

+4 letters: authorize, brutalize, carburize, cauterize, cruzadoes, curarized, curarizes, equalizer, gazumpers, humanizer, lazurites, pauperize, pluralize, quantizer, quartzite, quartzose, quatorzes, rheumatiz, ritualize, ruralized, ruralizes, schnauzer, summarize, suzerains, trapezium, trapezius, urbanized, urbanizes, vulgarize, zarzuelas.

+5 letters: authorized, authorizer, authorizes, benzofuran, brutalized, brutalizes, burglarize, carburized, carburizes, cauterized, cauterizes, equalizers, glamourize, humanizers, journalize, naturalize, neutralize, pasteurize, pauperized, pauperizes, pluralized, pluralizes, popularize, quantizers, quartzites, quizmaster, regularize, rehumanize, ritualized, ritualizes, schnauzers, secularize, summarized, summarizer, summarizes, suzerainty, trapeziums, traumatize, underglaze, unrealized, visualizer, vulcanizer, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizes.