diamantine

1. 1.

   consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds

Questions about diamantine

What does diamantine mean?

diamantine means "consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds".

How many syllables are in diamantine?

diamantine has 4 syllables and divides as di-a-man-tine 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.

Is diamantine a common word?

diamantine 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.