jewelry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   US standard spelling of jewellery.

   “The Global Africa Project” at the Museum of Arts & Design tries to survey this pervasiveness, in terms of contemporary visual endeavors of all kinds: jewelry, fashion, architecture, basketry, ceramics, painting, utilitarian design.

2. 2
   verb

   To make jewelry.

   He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring.

3. 3
   verb

   To adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry.

   The large UNESCO hall, where she exhibited, held them all in full space and light — the early paintings, the hand-woven textures and colors in wool, the brilliance of enamels and glass, jewelried silver and gold, and the structured clay metal and stone pieces.

4. 4
   noun

   an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)