cerulean
noun
- name of a color
adjective
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Pronunciation: /səˈɹuːli.ən/
adj
Etymology: From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).
- 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”
noun
Etymology: From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).
- 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 […]”
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.