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1. amber
adjective. ['ˈæmbɝ'] of a medium to dark brownish yellow color.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- ambre (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
- عنبر (Arabic)
Rhymes with Amber
- cambre
How do you pronounce amber?
Pronounce amber as ˈæmbər.
US - How to pronounce amber in American English
UK - How to pronounce amber in British English
Sentences with amber
1. Noun, singular or mass
This food source can even be the sweet amber found in your wooden dresser.
2. Verb, base form
Tung oil has a warm, amber color that gives wood a classic hand-finished look.
Quotes about amber
1. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
- Kurt Vonnegut
2. If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
- Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
3. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.
- Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
