Meaning

2 senses
  1. An artificial diamond used as adornment, such as a rhinestone.

    adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing

  2. A diamante poem.

Origin

Borrowed from French diamanté (“adorned with diamonds”). From past participle of diamanter

Borrowed from French diamanté (“adorned with diamonds”). From past participle of diamanter (“adorn with diamonds”), from diamant (“diamond”), from oblique stem of Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “hard metal, diamond”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: diamantes
Singulardiamante
Pluraldiamantes

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing:sequinspangle

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
diamante — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto