aventurine

Questions about aventurine

What does aventurine mean?

aventurine means "a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals".

How many syllables are in aventurine?

aventurine has 4 syllables and divides as a-ven-tu-rine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for aventurine?

Close synonyms include sunstone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aventurine a common word?

aventurine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.