Usually means: Precious gem used in adornment.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word jewel:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. jewel: Merriam-Webster
  2. jewel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jewel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jewel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jewel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jewel, jewel: Wordnik
  7. jewel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Jewel, jewel: Wiktionary
  9. jewel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jewel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jewel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jewel, jewel: Dictionary.com
  13. jewel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jewel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jewel (Marcella Detroit album), Jewel (disambiguation), Jewel (film), Jewel (musician), Jewel (novel), Jewel (singer), Jewel (supermarket), Jewel (watch), Jewel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jewel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jewel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jewel: Rhymezone
  19. jewel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jewel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. jewel: FreeDictionary.org
  22. jewel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. jewel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Jewel: Who2
  25. jewel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. jewel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jewel (disambiguation), jewel: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. JEWEL: Acronym Finder
  3. jewel: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jewel: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jewel, jewel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Jewel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jewel: Pen Glossary

(Note: See jeweled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
noun:  A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything precious or valuable.
noun:  (horology) A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
noun:  Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Hypochrysops.
noun:  (slang) The clitoris.
verb:  To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
noun:  A female given name from English from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century.
noun:  A male given name from English, a variant of Jewell, or from "jewel" like the female name.

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