# garnet
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.

#### Noun

garnet (countable and uncountable, plural garnets)
* (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
** 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, page 127:How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
** 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 June 2012, page 128:Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
* A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
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##### Derived terms

* cross-garnet
* demantoid garnet
* garnetberry
* garnet berry (red currant)
* garnet brown
* garnetiferous
* garnet-throated hummingbird
* garnet yam
* garnierite
* gooseberry garnet
* hydrogarnet
* mandarin garnet
* rose garnet
* tsavorite garnet
* YAG
* yttrium iron garnet

##### Related terms

* grenade
* pomegranate

##### See also

* allochroite
* almandine
* andradite
* carbuncle
* cinnamon stone
* Colorado ruby
* demantoid
* essonite
* grossularite
* hessonite
* melanite
* ouvarovite
* pyrope
* rhodolite
* spessartine
* topazolite
* tsavorite
* uvarovite

#### Adjective

garnet
* Of a dark red colour.

##### See also

* blood red
* brick red
* burgundy
* cardinal
* carmine
* carnation
* cerise
* cherry
* cherry red
* Chinese red
* cinnabar
* claret
* crimson
* damask
* fire brick
* fire engine red
* flame
* flamingo
* fuchsia
* garnet
* geranium
* gules
* hot pink
* incarnadine
* Indian red
* magenta
* maroon
* misty rose
* nacarat
* oxblood
* pillar-box red
* pink
* Pompeian red
* poppy
* raspberry
* red violet
* rose
* rouge
* ruby
* ruddy
* salmon
* sanguine
* scarlet
* shocking pink
* stammel
* strawberry
* Turkey red
* Venetian red
* vermilion
* vinaceous
* vinous
* violet red
* wine

### Etymology 2

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#### Noun

garnet (plural garnets)
* (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out of a vessel.
** 1893, Charles Bushell, The Rigger's Guide and Seaman's Assistant:Using a garnet for the lower-deck guns on the lower deck: Lash the centre of the yard to the mast, and hook both burtons to support the yard.

##### Derived terms

* clew-garnet

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

garnet (third-person singular simple present garnets, present participle garneting, simple past and past participle garneted)
* (transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.

##### Derived terms

* garneter

### References

* ↑ “garnet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Tanger, Argent, Granet, Gretna, argent, gerant, Gernat

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From English garnet, from Middle English granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: gar‧net

### Noun

garnet
* (mineralogy) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives
* a dark red color, like that of the gemstone

### Adjective

garnet
* of a dark red colour

## Danish
### Noun

garnet n
* definite singular of garn

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

garnet n
* definite singular of garn

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

garnet n
* definite singular of garn

## Swedish
### Noun

garnet
* definite singular of garn

### Anagrams

* regnat