American English pronunciation
How to pronounce opal
IPA transcription: ['oʊpəl]
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Noun
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a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
Usage examples
- This episcopal division was the poorest in Brittany.
- It was withdrawn in conjunction with the Newcastle Buses and Ferries Opal card rollout.
- Unlike the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church rejected the use of bishops.
- He attended high school at Virginia Episcopal School, where he was a basketball star.
- She and her husband built Saint Mary the Virgin, an Episcopal church in Dalkeith.
- He was a minister at the Saint Lukes Episcopal Church in Fall River, Massachusetts.
- All these preferments he held until he was advanced to the episcopal bench.
- In the strictest sense, only those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy possess cathedrals.
- Opal is another mineraloid because of its non-crystalline nature.
- Boyce died at Dover and is buried there in the Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery.