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1) (a very hard, colourless precious stone: Her brooch had three diamonds in it; ( also adjective) a diamond ring.) diamant2) (a piece of diamond (often artificial) used as a tip on eg a record-player stylus.) diamant3) (a kind of four-sided figure or shape; ♦: There was a pattern of red and yellow diamonds on the floor.) karo4) (one of the playing-cards of the suit diamonds, which have red symbols of this shape on them.) karo•- diamonds* * *I [dáiəmənd]nounmineralogy diamant, demant; mathematics romb; karo (karte); printing vrsta črk; American baseballsko igrišče; plural poševno sečišče dveh progdiamond cut diamond, diamond against diamond — zvijača proti zvijači, kosa na kamencutting diamond, glazier's diamond — steklarski demantEnglish diamonds, black diamonds — črni premogfiguratively rough diamond — neolikan, a pošten človekII [dáiəmənd]adjectivedemantenAmerican Diamond State — DelawareIII [dáiəmənd]transitive verb(o)krasiti z demanti
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