Usually means: Purple quartz used in jewelry.
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  1. amethyst: Merriam-Webster
  2. amethyst: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amethyst: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amethyst: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amethyst: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amethyst, amethyst: Wordnik
  7. amethyst: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Amethyst: Wiktionary
  9. amethyst: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amethyst: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amethyst: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. amethyst: Dictionary.com
  13. amethyst: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Amethyst (Billy Hart album), Amethyst (Steven Universe), Amethyst (Steven Universe character), Amethyst (Tinashe album), Amethyst (color), Amethyst (disambiguation), Amethyst (mixtape), Amethyst: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Amethyst: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. amethyst: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. amethyst: Rhymezone
  18. Amethyst: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. amethyst: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. amethyst: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. amethyst: FreeDictionary.org
  22. amethyst: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. amethyst: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Amethyst: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. amethyst: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. amethyst: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

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  1. amethyst: Encyclopedia

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Amethyst: Easton Bible
  2. Amethyst: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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  1. Amethyst: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. AMETHYST: The Mineral Gallery

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  1. amethyst: Urban Dictionary

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  1. GLOSSARY OF JEWELRY-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
  2. IndyGem Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See amethystine as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone.
noun:  (uncountable) A purple colour.
noun:  (heraldry) The tincture purpure, when blazoning by precious stones.
adjective:  Having a colour similar to that of the gemstone
noun:  A female given name

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