Usually means: Precious stone, valued for beauty.
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We found 60 dictionaries that define the word gem:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. GEM, gem: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. GEM, gem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. GEM, gem: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gem: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gem: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gem, gem, gem: Wordnik
  7. gem: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. GEM, Gem, gem: Wiktionary
  9. gem: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gem: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gem: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. GEM: Dictionary.com
  13. gem: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gem: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. G.E.M, G.E.M. (EP), G.E.M. (singer), GEM (Australian TV Channel), GEM (Australian TV channel), GEM (The Hague), GEM (band), GEM (desktop environment), GEM, Gem (Dutch band), Gem (EP), Gem (Southeast Asia TV channel), Gem (automobile), Gem (disambiguation), Gem (radio station), Gem (singer), Gem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gem: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gem: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gem: Rhymezone
  19. gem: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gem: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. GEM, Gem: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. gem: Free Dictionary
  23. gem: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gem: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. GEM: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. gem: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gem: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Gem: Numismatic Dictionary
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. GEM, GEM: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. GEM: Financial dictionary
  4. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. GEM: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. GEM: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. gem: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gem: Medical dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GEM: Acronym Finder
  2. GEM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gem: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Gem: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gem: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Ge.m, The Gem, gem: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. GEM: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Gem: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  4. Gem: Coin Collecting
  5. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See gemmed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
noun:  (figuratively) Any precious or highly valued thing or person.
noun:  Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
noun:  (obsolete) A gemma or leaf-bud.
noun:  A geometrid moth of species Orthonama obstipata.
noun:  (computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
noun:  (uncountable, printing, uncommon, obsolete) A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.
verb:  (transitive) To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
noun:  A native or resident of the American state of Idaho.
noun:  A ghost town in California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Indiana.
noun:  A city in Kansas.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Gemma.
noun:  Initialism of ground-effect machine. [Synonym of hovercraft]

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