azure

About 0.71 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.

   azure:

2. noun A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

   azure (heraldry):

3. noun The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
4. noun Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
5. noun Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
6. noun Lapis lazuli.
7. adjective Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
8. adjective Cloudless.

Similar words

cerulean lazuline sky-blue sapphire colored chromatic bright blue blue azur fesse

Often followed by

sky of blue and a eyes sea skies vault

Word family

azures