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cerulean

Syllables: ce·ru·le·an/səˈɹuːli.ən/

cerulean noun: a greenish-blue color.

cerulean: a greenish-blue color
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Noun

cerulean (countable and uncountable, plural ceruleans)

  1. A greenish-blue color.
    • For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 59
  2. (countable) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.

Adjective

cerulean (comparative more cerulean, superlative most cerulean)

  1. Sky-blue.
    • As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart
    • Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future / And these cerulean skies / Something in our skies, something in our skies1995, “The Hearts Filthy Lesson”, in 1. Outside, performed by David Bowie

cerulean meaning in Bengali, Gujarati and Tagalog

cerulean in Bengali

গভীর নীল, আকাশি রঙের

cerulean in Gujarati

cerulean, sky blue
આસમાન āsmān

cerulean in Tagalog

sky blue — see also sky blue
serulyo

Synonyms of cerulean

Forms of cerulean

Noun
pluralceruleans
alternative formcærulean
Adjective
comparativemore cerulean
superlativemost cerulean

Origin of cerulean

From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).

Words formed from cerulean

Phrases with cerulean

Words that rhyme with cerulean

Questions about cerulean

What does cerulean mean?
Cerulean means a greenish-blue color.
What is cerulean in Bengali?
Cerulean in Bengali is গভীর নীল, আকাশি রঙের. See Cerulean meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is cerulean?
Cerulean can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce cerulean?
Cerulean is pronounced /səˈɹuːli.ən/.
What is the plural of cerulean?
The plural of cerulean is ceruleans.

Words near cerulean in the dictionary

  1. certworthiness
  2. certworthy
  3. certy
  4. Ceru-Băcăinți
  5. cerule
  6. cerulean
  7. cerulean blue
  8. cerulean blues
  9. cerulean warbler
  10. ceruleans
  11. cerulein

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cerulean (page history and authors); cerulean (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); આસમાન (Gujarati) (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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