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amber noun

  /ˈam.bə/ , /ˈæm.bɚ/
  • A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. [from 15th c.]
ambre, ambre jaune
  • A yellow-orange colour.
couleur d'ambre, ambre
  • (British) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
feu orange

amber adjective

  /ˈam.bə/ , /ˈæm.bɚ/
  • Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
ambré

Amber properNoun

  /ˈæm.bə/ , /ˈæm.bɚ/
  • A en given name, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
Ambre
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