ivory

Speech parts

1. ivory - Noun

2. ivory - Adjective

3. Ivory - Proper noun

Meaning

The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.

The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.

Any carving executed in ivory.

Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tusk bone off-white pearl cream whitish lily fang chrome milky snow-white white tawny light alabaster
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Antonyms

navy brown ebony black gray jet-black
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Hypernyms

white whiteness dentine dentin

Related terms

eburnation chryselephantine

Phrases with the word

ivory tower ivory-thumper antique ivory ivory-carving ivory bat ivory-white

Derivatives

ivories

Examples

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. Logan Pearsall Smith

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. Billie Joe Armstrong

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages! Alex Ferguson

There is no ivory in the mouth of a dog. Vietnamese Proverb

When wood breaks it can be repaired, but ivory breaks forever. Yoruba Proverb

The one who buries ivory is the one to dig it up. Swahili Proverb

Close letter words and terms

ivoriness ivorist ivoroid ivory bat ivory black ivory bloom