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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun alabaster has 3 senses
- alabaster(n = noun.substance) Array - a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving; Array is a kind of gypsum
- alabaster(n = noun.substance) mexican onyx, onyx marble, oriental alabaster - a hard compact kind of calcite; Array is a kind of calcite
- alabaster(n = noun.attribute) Array - a very light white; Array is a kind of white, whiteness
Adjective alabaster has 1 sense
- alabaster(a = adj.pert) alabastrine - of or resembling alabaster; "alabaster statue"
CIDE DICTIONARY
alabaster, n. [L. alabaster, Gr. 'ala`bastros, said to be derived fr. Alabastron, the name of a town in Egypt, near which it was common: cf. OF. alabastre, F. albâtre.].
- A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc. [1913 Webster]
- A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
alabaster, n. & adj.
--n. a translucent usu. white form of gypsum, often carved into ornaments.
--adj.
1 of alabaster.
2 like alabaster in whiteness or smoothness.
--n. a translucent usu. white form of gypsum, often carved into ornaments.
--adj.
1 of alabaster.
2 like alabaster in whiteness or smoothness.
Derivative
alabastrine adj.
Etymology
ME f. OF alabastre f. L alabaster, -trum, f. Gk alabast(r)os
THESAURUS
alabaster
amphibole, antimony, apatite, aplite, arsenic, asbestos, asphalt, azurite, bauxite, billiard table, bitumen, boron, bowling alley, bowling green, brimstone, bromine, brucite, calcite, carbon, celestite, chalcedony, chalk, chlorite, chromite, clay, coal, coke, corundum, cryolite, diatomite, driven snow, emery, epidote, epsomite, feldspar, flat, fleece, flour, foam, garnet, glass, glauconite, graphite, gypsum, hatchettine, holosiderite, ice, iron pyrites, ivory, jet, kyanite, level, lignite, lily, lime, maggot, magnesite, mahogany, malachite, maltha, marble, marcasite, marl, meerschaum, mica, milk, mineral coal, mineral oil, mineral salt, mineral tallow, mineral tar, mineral wax, molybdenite, monazite, obsidian, olivine, ozokerite, paper, pearl, peat, perlite, phosphate rock, phosphorus, plane, pumice, pyrite, pyrites, pyroxene, quartz, realgar, red clay, rhodonite, rock crystal, rocks, salt, satin, selenite, selenium, sheet, siderite, silica, silicate, silicon, silk, silver, slide, smooth, snow, spar, spinel, spodumene, sulfur, swan, talc, talcum, tellurium, tennis court, velvet, wollastonite, wulfenite, zeoliteROGET THESAURUS
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Whiteness
N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.
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