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camei

UK/ˈkæm.iː.i/

camei is the plural of cameo.

Meaning of cameo

Noun

cameo (plural cameos or cameoes or camei)

  1. A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
    • Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433
  2. A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.
    • Famous comic book writer Stan Lee had a cameo in the Spider-Man movie. He was on screen for perhaps ten seconds, but aficionados distinctly remember him.

See all 3 meanings of cameo

Questions about camei

What is camei the plural of?
Camei is the plural of cameo.
How do you pronounce camei?
Camei is pronounced /ˈkæm.iː.i/ (UK).

Words near camei in the dictionary

  1. came with the territory
  2. came with the turf
  3. came Yorkshire over
  4. camed
  5. camedst
  6. camei
  7. Camejo
  8. Camejos
  9. camel
  10. camel case
  11. Camel City

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camei (page history and authors); cameo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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