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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McQueen is getting in on the art deco centenary action, shooting its 2025 holiday campaign at Eltham Palace in southeast London, an architectural gem built in 1936 that now belongs to the charity English Heritage.—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025 The museum’s national gem and mineral collection comprises some 350,000 mineral specimens and 10,000 gems.—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
Twists and turns happen from there, and the soundtrack is laced with Tropicália gems from the 1970s.—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025 Consider this Tata Harper gem the fountain of youth in oil form.—Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 29 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for gem
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Etymology
Noun
Middle English gemme, from Anglo-French, from Latin gemma bud, gem
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