crystal
Made of crystalMade of crystal.
» We don't have a crystal ball.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(literally, not comparable)Made of crystal.
(figuratively, not comparable)Very clear; coherent.
"Do I make myself clear?" / "Crystal."
Examples
106 sentencesWe don't have a crystal ball.
Tom doesn't know the difference between glass and crystal.
Tom made it crystal clear he didn't want to do that.
Tom made it crystal clear that he didn't want to do that.
The crystals sparkled in the sunlight.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English crystal, cristal, criȝstall, representing a merger of Old English crisFrom Middle English crystal, cristal, criȝstall, representing a merger of Old English cristalla (from Latin crystallus) and Anglo-Norman cristall, Old French cristal (from Latin crystallum). The Latin is derived from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “clear ice”), from κρύος (krúos, “frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krews- (“hard, hard outer surface, crust”).
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