Noun
The house is a gem of colonial architecture.
He pitched a gem of a game.
Her most recent novel is a real gem.
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Noun
Then again, there was a downside to this furious gem–typing: namely, due to an accident of birth, you might get stuck with a turkey.—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2024 Forty miles north of Boston, the town has a can't-miss natural gem in Halibut Point State Park, from which visitors can spot Maine in the distance 80 miles away.—Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gem
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English gemme, from Anglo-French, from Latin gemma bud, gem
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