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Definition: ROUGH DIAMOND |
ROUGH DIAMOND1. An uncut diamond; hence, colloquially, a person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A diamond in its natural state. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Artlessness | Rough diamond, matter of fact man; le palais de verite; enfant terrible. |
Commonalty | Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub, rough diamond. |
Good Man | Brick, trump, gem, jewel, good fellow, prince, diamond in the rough, rough diamond, ugly duckling. |
Vulgarity | Rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown; (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ROUGH DIAMOND |
| English words defined with "ROUGH DIAMOND": Brait. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Rough Diamond (1921) A Rough Diamond (1912) | |
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Expression using "ROUGH DIAMOND": a rough diamond. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rough diamond | 48 |
uncut rough diamond | 6 |
rough diamond price | 4 |
buy rough diamond | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ROUGH DIAMOND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rohdiamant (dob). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακατέργαστο διαμάντι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oughray iamondday diamante bruto. (various references) neşlefuit (unpolished), diamant brut. (various references) diamante bruto. (various references) oslipad diamant, fin men ohyfsad människa. (various references) iyi kâlpli ama kaba insan, işlenmemiş elmas (uncut diamond). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-h-i-m-n-o-o-r-u" | |
-4 letters: gourmand, hoarding, humanoid, humoring, maidhood, ondogram, origanum, rhodamin, rigadoon, rigaudon. | |
-5 letters: adoring, aground, amorino, android, dadoing, diamond, dooming, doorman, dragoon, dromond, gadroon, goddamn, goodman, gormand, gourami, gunroom, harming, hooding, hording, humidor, madding, madrono, manhood, mooring, mudding, organum, radding, rhodium, roaming, rodding, rooming. | |
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