11 definitions found for cerulean

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

cerulean 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]

cerulean laurence

cerulean 1667, from L. c?iruleus "blue, dark blue, blue-green," probably from c?ilulum dim. of c?ilum "heaven, sky," from PIE base *s(k)ai- "bright." The L. word was applied by Roman authors to the sky, the Mediterranean, and occasionally to leaves or fields.

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

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

cerulean sɪˈru:ljən adj. & n. literary --adj. deep blue like a clear sky. --n. this colour. [L caeruleus sky-blue f. caelum sky]

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.

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

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "cerulean": 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