Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: azure
IPA transcription: ['æʒɚ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright_blue
    Meaning: of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue
    Meaning: a light shade of blue
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: azure
    Meaning: color azure; "Morning azured the village"
Usage examples
  • Everywhere around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has set in an unclouded azure sky.
  • And as I gazing round me come among them, Upon a yellow pouch I azure saw That had the face and posture of a lion.
  • And one, who with an azure sow and gravid Emblazoned had his little pouch of white, Said unto me: "What dost thou in this moat?
  • The great buildings of New York, at which he had been gazing for hours, were standing, heterogeneous but magnificent, clear-cut against an azure sky.
  • 'The Polonias have intermarried with the greatest and most ancient families of Rome, and you see their heraldic cognizance (a mushroom or on an azure field) quartered in a hundred places in the city with the arms of the Colonnas and Dorias.
  • He rests among the dead. The swarm that in thy noon-tide beam were born? --Gone to salute the rising morn. Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.