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Cerulean definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CERULEAN,
CERULEOUS, a. Sky-colored; blue.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather" [syn: azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue] n
1: a light shade of blue [syn: azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin caeruleus dark blue Date: 1662 resembling the blue of the sky

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. literary --adj. deep blue like a clear sky. --n. this colour. Etymology: L caeruleus sky-blue f. caelum sky

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cerulean Ce*ru"le*an, a. [L. caeruleus.] Sky-colored; blue; azure. --Cowper. Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. --Bryant.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Azure, blue, sky-colored, sky-blue.

Moby Thesaurus

Caelus, air, azure, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureous, beryl-blue, berylline, blue, blue sky, bluish, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, ceruleous, cerulescent, cope, cyanean, dark-blue, deep-blue, empyrean, ether, firmament, heaven, heavens, hyaline, lift, lifts, light-blue, lightish-blue, livid, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, sapphire, sapphirine, sky, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, starry heaven, the blue, the blue serene, turquoise, vault, vault of heaven, welkin