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jewelery

jewelery is the misspelling of jewellery.

jewelery is the misspelling of jewelry.

Meaning of jewellery

Noun

jewellery (usually uncountable, plural jewelleries)

  1. (usually) Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.
    • The jewellery was very expensive in that shop.
  2. (informal, usually, oil industry) Any tools, instruments, devices, etc., placed within a drill pipe.
    • The rig simply retrieves the old pipe and runs a new pipe back in the hole (the completion string). Any special items on the string other than the pipe itself are referred to as "jewellery". These can be any number of things, from down-hole motors to mandrels and radioactive sources for survey...2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 44
  3. (usually) The shop from which a jeweller trades or makes jewellery

Meaning of jewelry

Verb

jewelry (third-person singular simple present jewelries, present participle jewelrying, simple past and past participle jewelried)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To make jewelry.
    • He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring.1897 August 10, Ephraim Cutter, “Fatty Ills and Their Masquerades”, in The Medical Age, volume 15, number 15
  2. (intransitive, rare) To adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry.
    • The large UNESCO hall, where she exhibited, held them all in full space and light — the early paintings, the hand-woven textures and colors in wool, the brilliance of enamels and glass, jewelried silver and gold, and the structured clay metal and stone pieces.1988, Helen Khal, The Woman Artist in Lebanon

Phrases with jewelery

Questions about jewelery

What is jewelery the misspelling of?
Jewelery is the misspelling of jewellery.

Words near jewelery in the dictionary

  1. jeweler
  2. jeweler's
  3. jeweler's gold
  4. jewelers
  5. jewelers'
  6. jewelery
  7. jewelfish
  8. jewelfishes
  9. jewelflower
  10. jewelfront
  11. jewelfronts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jewelery (page history and authors); jewellery (page history and authors); jewelry (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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