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citrine

UK/ˈsɪtɹiːn//ˈsɪtɹin/

citrine noun: a goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.

citrine: a goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon
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Noun

citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)

  1. A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
    • dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242
    • […] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […]
  2. A brownish-yellow quartz.

Adjective

citrine (not comparable)

  1. Of a goldish-yellow colour.
    • The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 31

Proper noun capitalized: Citrine

Citrine (plural Citrines)

  1. A surname.

citrine meaning in Tamil

citrine in Tamil

மஞ்சள் வயிரம்

Forms of citrine

Noun
pluralcitrines
alternative formcitrean
alternative formcitrinous
Proper noun
pluralCitrines

Origin of citrine

From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.

Words formed from citrine

Phrases with citrine

Questions about citrine

What does citrine mean?
Citrine means a goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
What is citrine in Tamil?
Citrine in Tamil is மஞ்சள் வயிரம். See Citrine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is citrine?
Citrine can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce citrine?
Citrine is pronounced /ˈsɪtɹin/ (US).
What is the plural of citrine?
The plural of citrine is citrines.

Words near citrine in the dictionary

  1. citril
  2. citrils
  3. citrin
  4. citrination
  5. citrinations
  6. citrine
  7. citrine ointment
  8. citrine ointments
  9. citrine wagtail
  10. citrine wagtails
  11. citrines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: citrine (page history and authors); Citrine (page history and authors); citrine (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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