AZURE
What does "AZURE" mean?
A bright, clear shade of blue, like a cloudless midday sky.
Meanings
- A vivid sky-blue color. The lake held a perfect azure under the noon sun.
- Of a bright blue color resembling a clear sky. She wore an azure scarf that matched the morning.
- In heraldry, the tincture blue. The shield was charged azure with three gold stars. technical
- The clear blue sky itself. A single hawk circled in the empty azure. figurative
Did you know?
- Azure is named after a rock: it traces back to the Persian word for lapis lazuli, the blue stone medieval painters ground up to make the most expensive pigment in Europe.
Word origin
From Old French 'azur', from Medieval Latin 'azurium', via Arabic 'al-lazward' from Persian 'lazward', the blue stone lapis lazuli; the initial 'l' was lost when mistaken for the Arabic article 'al'.
Remember it
AZURE starts at A and ends at the sky - picture an 'A'-frame house under a pure blue ceiling.
A little poem
Noon drains every cloud-
the lake lies open, holding
more sky than the sky.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked the painter what color the sky was. He said, 'I'm not sure - azure as I can tell, it's blue.'
What it teaches
The brightest names often hide a buried origin - azure once meant a stone, not the sky it now paints.
Quick facts
What does AZURE mean?
A bright, clear shade of blue, like a cloudless midday sky.
Is AZURE a valid word?
Yes — AZURE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is AZURE?
AZURE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does AZURE come from?
From Old French 'azur', from Medieval Latin 'azurium', via Arabic 'al-lazward' from Persian 'lazward', the blue stone lapis lazuli; the initial 'l' was lost when mistaken for the Arabic article 'al'.
What can AZURE teach us?
The brightest names often hide a buried origin - azure once meant a stone, not the sky it now paints.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.