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- Dictionarycerulean/sɪˈruːlɪən/
adjective
- 1. deep blue in colour like a clear sky: "images of cerulean waters and golden sands"
noun
- 1. a deep sky-blue colour: "the background was painted in cerulean blue"
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Cerulean (/ s ə ˈ r uː l i ə n /), also spelled caerulean, is a variety of the hue of blue that may range from a light azure blue to a more intense sky blue, and may be mixed as well with the hue of green.
: resembling the blue of the sky. Did you know? Cerulean comes from Latin caeruleus, which means "dark blue" and is most likely from caelum, "sky." Examples of cerulean in a Sentence.
(Definition of cerulean from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of cerulean. cerulean. Some intense blue colors, including cobalt blue and cerulean blue, are made with cobalt compounds. From. Wikipedia. Cerulean warblers depend on shade coffee plantations during the winter.
adjective. literary us / səˈruː.li.ən / uk / səˈruː.li.ən / Add to word list. deep blue in color. Compare. azure adjective. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Less common colors. apple green. argent. ashy. avocado. baby blue. carmine. cerise. dun. emerald. ocher. periwinkle. pistachio. puce. racing green. ruddily. rust. saffron. sapphire.
Cerulean definition: deep blue; sky blue; azure.. See examples of CERULEAN used in a sentence.
Something that's cerulean is colored a clear, deep blue. On a sunny summer day, the sky is often cerulean, with just a few puffy white clouds.
noun. 1. deep blue; sky blue; azure. 2. Heraldry. a sky-blue tincture, used esp. on the Continent. adjective. 3. of a deep blue colour; azure. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Definition of cerulean adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define cerulean. cerulean synonyms, cerulean pronunciation, cerulean translation, English dictionary definition of cerulean. adj. Azure; sky-blue. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Origin of Cerulean. From Latin caeruleus (“blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēy (w)-, *ḱyē (w)- (“grey”). Cognate with Old English hār (“grey”). More at hoar. From Wiktionary. From Latin caeruleus dark blue akin to caelum sky. From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
