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Definition of Cerulean
1. Adjective. Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky. "October's bright blue weather"
2. Noun. A light shade of blue.
Generic synonyms: Blue, Blueness
Derivative terms: Azure, Azure, Sapphire
Definition of Cerulean
1. a. Sky-colored; blue; azure.
Definition of Cerulean
1. Noun. A deep blue colour, like the sky on a fine day. ¹
2. Adjective. Of a deep blue colour, like the sky on a fine day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cerulean
1. a blue color [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cerulean
1. Synonym: blue. Origin: L. Caeruleus, blue, fr. Caelum, sky (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cerulean
Literary usage of Cerulean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1901)
"Tin- spi-i imen, a \ell mounted .nul in line condition in every w.iy. lili cerulean
WARBLER ... cerulean ..."
2. The Birds of Ohio: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 by William Leon Dawson, Lynds Jones (1903)
"Adult male: Above and on sides of head, neck, and breast bright grayish
blue (china-blue, scarcely "cerulean"), clearest on nape and rump; streaked with ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Which thou beholdest chafing at yon shores " And parting fruitful fields: cerulean
stream "Of Tiber, favored greatly of high Heaven. ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"So furious in beginning, shall these, then, Lose heat; and that ere the cerulean
hew, Wherewith those stained have their pale bodies, fade. ..."
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