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cerulean

noun
/səˈɹuːli.ən/

Etymology

From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).

Definitions

  1. A greenish-blue color.

    • For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]

  2. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.

  3. Sky-blue.

    • As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
    • Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future / And these cerulean skies / Something in our skies, something in our skies

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA