precious stone

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   a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry

   Synonymsjewelgem

   Broaderjewelry

   Narrowercrown jewelsolitairediamondrubypearlemeraldsapphire

Questions about precious stone

What does precious stone mean?

precious stone means "a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry".

What is another word for precious stone?

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

precious stone 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.