amber
(æmbəʳ )
1. uncountable noun [usually NOUN noun]
Amber is a hard yellowish-brown substance used for making jewellery.
...an amber choker with matching earrings.
...a Victorian cigar holder of amber and sterling silver.
2. colour
Amber is used to describe things that are yellowish-brown in colour.
A burst of sunshine sent a beam of amber light through the window.
He shook the amber bottle vigorously.
3. colour
An amber traffic light is orange.
Cars did not stop when the lights were on amber.
Image of amber
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Collocations:
amber light
From behind the tall, wide, mullioned windows with their stone lintels shone a warm, amber light.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
Under the government's new traffic light scheme, it would push the product from an amber light for fat content to a red light.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Only the garden of his dead neighbor told the truth, its ravaged tree fern blunt as a crucifix in the amber light of morning.
SURE OF YOU (1989)
Translations:
Chinese: 琥珀, 琥珀色的
Japanese: 琥珀色, 黄色の