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gemlike en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English gem Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English gemlike From gem + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact
   • His stuff was gemlike. 1988 June 3, Grant Pick, “A Philosopher's Life”, in Chicago Reader:
   • In his later years, Jackson published a series of twenty-one short, gemlike papers in the Lancet under the title Neurological Fragments. 2012, Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations:

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