jewel

1. 1.

   adorn or decorate with precious stones

   “jeweled dresses”

   Synonymsbejewel

   Broaderdecorate

Other forms of jewel

plural

jewels·

past tense or participle

jewelled

present participle

jewelling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jewel

What does jewel mean?

jewel means "a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jewel?

jewel has 2 syllables: je-wel. The stress falls on "je". In IPA it is /ˈdʒuəl/.

What is another word for jewel?

Close synonyms include gem, precious stone, gem, bejewel. 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 jewel a common word?

jewel is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.