jewellery

UK/ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)lɹi/US/ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)lɹi/

nounA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,860 of 15,258neutral

Jewellery is the ornaments people wear made of precious materials. Rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings.

It is a mass noun, so you own jewellery rather than jewelleries, and a single item is a piece of jewellery. British English uses this spelling and American English writes jewelry with one fewer syllable, which changes the pronunciation as well. Costume jewellery is the inexpensive kind made to look precious. The trade is a jeweller, and the raw materials are gold, silver and gemstones.

Definitions of jewellery

1nounjewelleryDecorative items worn on the body, made from precious metals and stones.A2+
“She kept her jewellery in a wooden box.”

Also accepted in games: jewelry

Where it comes from

Old French
juelerye
Middle English
juelrye
English, today
jewellery

Middle English juelrye, from Old French juelerye, equivalent to jewel + -ery.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Jewellery & Watches

First appears in chapter 16 of A Man Called Ove.

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jewellery in the wild

For many centuries, metals such as gold and silver, often combined with gemstones, have been the standard material for jewellery.
Jewellery
Titan is the largest branded jewellery maker in India by value, with a 6% market share as of 2022.
Titan Company
More than 80% of its total revenue comes from the jewellery segment.
Titan Company
The Jewellery Quarter is Europe's largest concentration of businesses involved in the jewellery trade and produces 40% of all the jewellery made in the UK.
Jewellery Quarter
Jewellery design is the art or profession of designing and creating jewellery.
Jewellery design

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Related words

the juelerye family

jewelry jewellery

jewellery — used about once every 1,129 pages · #4,860 · point at the bar for the others

jewel

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