Semiprecious

Definition: Semiprecious

Semiprecious

Adjective

1. Used of gemstones having less commercial value than precious stones; "such semiprecious stones as amethyst, garnet, jade, and tourmaline".

Specialty Definitions: Semiprecious

Domain	Definitions
Mining	Of less commercial value than those called precious; applied esp. to suchstones as amethyst, garnet, jade, and tourmaline. (references)
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Crosswords: Semiprecious

English words defined with "semiprecious": citrine ♦ gem ♦ jade, jadestone, jewel ♦ lapis lazuli, lazuli ♦ precious stone. (references)

Specialty definitions using "semiprecious": jewelry setter ♦ REPAIRER, ART OBJECTS ♦ STONE SETTER ♦ tiger's-eye ♦ williamsite. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Semiprecious

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Dust and Powder of Natural or Synthetic Precious or Semiprecious Stones: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Finding and Preparing Precious and Semiprecious Stones (reference) Fortune Telling by Crystals and Semiprecious Stones: A Practical Guide to Their Use in Divination, Meditation and Healing (reference) Guide in Color to Precious and Semiprecious Stones (reference) Riches of the Earth: Ornamental and Semiprecious Stones (reference) Story of Gems and Semiprecious Stones (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Semiprecious

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Namibia	The country also is a source of gold, silver, tin, vanadium, semiprecious gemstones, tantalite, phosphate, sulfur, and salt. (references)
	Afghanistan	Natural resources: Natural gas, oil, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron, salt, precious and semiprecious stones. (references)
	Afghanistan	Trade (1996 est.): Exports--$80 million (does not include opium): opium, fruits and nuts, hand-woven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semiprecious gems. (references)
Trade	Zimbabwe	The list includes nuclear reactors, radioactive materials, arms and ammunition, precious and semiprecious gems, gold jewelry, carbonated beverages for resale, and textiles and clothing for resale. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Semiprecious

Expression using "semiprecious": semiprecious stone. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Semiprecious

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
semiprecious stone	32
semiprecious bead	14
semiprecious	10
semiprecious jewelry	9
semiprecious stone jewelry	7
semiprecious stone bead	6
bead semiprecious wholesale	5
semiprecious gem stone	5
bead chip semiprecious	4
14k bracelet gem semiprecious stone	3
importer semiprecious stone	3
exporter semiprecious stone	3
semiprecious gem	2
manufacturer semiprecious stone	2
crystal jewelry semiprecious stone	2
semiprecious stone necklace	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Semiprecious

Language		Translations for "semiprecious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjysmë i çmuar (semi-precious stone). (various references)

Bulgarian		полускъпоценен. (various references)

Czech		polodrahokamový. (various references)

German		halbedel. (various references)

Greek		ημιπολύτιμοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		féldrága. (various references)

Italian		semiprezioso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		半貴石 (semiprecious stones). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		は�"きせき (semiprecious stones). (various references)

Manx		lieh-leaghar. (various references)

Pig Latin		emiprecioussay

Portuguese		semiprecioso. (various references)

Russian		полудрагоценный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		poludragi. (various references)

Spanish		fino (choice, dainty, delicate, discriminating, fine, gaunt, genteel, gossamer, ladylike, lean, nice, plain, plained, polished, refined, seed-free, sharp, sheer, shrewd, slender, suave, subtil, subtile, subtle, thin). (various references)

Ukranian		самоцвітний, напівкоштовний. (various references)

Vietnamese		nửa quý. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Semiprecious

Misspellings
	"Semiprecious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: semiprcious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Semiprecious"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "semiprecious" (pronounced se'mēpre"shus)
6	-p r e" sh u s	precious.
3	-sh u s	ambitious, anxious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, capacious, capricious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, delicious, efficacious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, fallacious, ferocious, fictitious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, loquacious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, pernicious, precocious, predaceous, pretentious, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, salacious, sebaceous, seditious, spacious, specious, subconscious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tenacious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vexatious, vicious, vivacious, voracious.
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Anagrams: Semiprecious

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-m-o-p-r-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: epicurisms, preciouses.
	-3 letters: comprises, epicurism, imperious, imprecise, miscopies, misprices, promisees, reimposes, sericeous, spiceries.
	-4 letters: compeers, comperes, compress, comprise, corpuses, empirics, emprises, epicures, epimeric, episomes, espouser, imposers, impreses, isomeric, miseries, mispoise, misprice, moperies, pismires, precious, precises, premises, presumes, primuses, promisee, promises, pumicers, recopies, reimpose, repousse, semipros, specious, spermous, spiremes, supremos.
	-5 letters: cerises, ceriums, ceruses, cesiums.
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