TOPAZ
What does "TOPAZ" mean?
A hard transparent gemstone, an aluminum silicate mineral, often golden-yellow but found in many colors.
Meanings
- A silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine prized as a gem, classically yellow to brown but also blue, pink, or colorless. She wore a ring set with a single honey-colored topaz.
- A warm yellow or golden-brown color, the shade of the classic stone. The whisky glowed topaz in the lamplight. figurative
Did you know?
- Topaz is the reference mineral for hardness 8 on the Mohs scale - hard enough to scratch quartz, but soft enough that a diamond cuts it.
- The 1,640-carat 'Braganza' in Portugal's crown jewels was prized for centuries as a colossal diamond - it turned out to be colorless topaz.
Word origin
From Old French 'topace', from Latin 'topazus', from Greek 'topazos', a name the ancients applied to a yellow-green stone, possibly after Topazos Island in the Red Sea.
Remember it
TOPAZ sits at the TOP of November birthstones - and it tops out at 8 on the hardness scale.
A little poem
Trapped honey of light,
the mountain kept it cold for
ten thousand winters.
haiku
Wordplay
- The lazy gemcutter only worked on yellow stones - he liked to keep things on topaz.
What it teaches
The hardest things are not always the rarest; sometimes value is just light a stone refused to let go.
Quick facts
What does TOPAZ mean?
A hard transparent gemstone, an aluminum silicate mineral, often golden-yellow but found in many colors.
Is TOPAZ a valid word?
Yes — TOPAZ is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TOPAZ?
TOPAZ has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does TOPAZ come from?
From Old French 'topace', from Latin 'topazus', from Greek 'topazos', a name the ancients applied to a yellow-green stone, possibly after Topazos Island in the Red Sea.
What can TOPAZ teach us?
The hardest things are not always the rarest; sometimes value is just light a stone refused to let go.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.