1 (also less frequent gemstone ) a precious stone that has been cut and polished and is used in jewellery:
a crown studded with gems
2 a person, place or thing that is especially good:
This picture is the gem (= the best) of the collection. * a gem of a place * She's a real gem!
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gem is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gem a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gem is tagged as noun.
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