American English pronunciation

How to pronounce opal

IPA transcription: ['oʊpəl]

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Noun

  • 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  • It was withdrawn in conjunction with the Newcastle Buses and Ferries Opal card rollout.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.