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diamond ring en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see diamond, ring.
   • If that mocking bird don’t^([sic]) sing // Daddy’s going to buy me a diamond ring. // If that diamond ring don’t^([sic]) shine // Daddy’s going to buy me a bottle of wine. 1907, Recreation, National Recreation Association, page 545:
2. By extension, an engagement ring, usually one given by a man to a woman.
   • He frowned slightly, whether at the loss of a potential sale or the unnaturalness of a single woman standing beside a handsome man and not lusting after a diamond ring I couldn't be sure. 2010, Juliet Blackwell, If Walls Could Talk: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery:
   • “Delvin, a diamond ring means you are engaged to be married. I barely know you.” 2006, Mary Slonaker, The Vinton House, page 37:
   • If it were not a tradition that a woman shall accept from her fiance a diamond ring which the idiot cannot, in all probability, afford to give her — well, women would not accept them. 1923, Peter Bernard Kyne, Never the Twain Shall Meet, page 19:
3. An optical phenomenon visible during a moment of a solar eclipse when only a tiny part of the sun is not obscured by the moon, shining like a diamond in the ring of the sun’s corona.

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Relateds

Baily's beads

Translations (18)

da diamantring (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · fi timanttisormus (optical phenomenon during a solar eclipse) · cmn 鑽戒 /钻戒 (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · nn diamantring (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · de Diamantringeffekt (optical phenomenon during a solar eclipse) · ru бриллиа́нтовое кольцо́ (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · sv diamantring (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · cmn 鑽石環 /钻石环 (optical phenomenon during a solar eclipse) · tr pırlanta (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · ja ダイヤモンドリング (optical phenomenon during a solar eclipse) · fi timanttisormus (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · ru чётки Бе́йли (optical phenomenon during a solar eclipse) · de Diamantring (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · nb diamantring (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · ja ダイヤモンドリング (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · ru кольцо́ с бриллиа́нтом (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · ja ダイヤの指輪 (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond) · mr हिर्याची अंगठी (finger ring on which is mounted a diamond)