Usually means: Fossilized tree resin, often gem-like.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. amber: Merriam-Webster
  2. amber: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amber: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amber: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amber: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amber, amber: Wordnik
  7. amber: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Amber, amber: Wiktionary
  9. amber: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amber: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amber: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. amber: Dictionary.com
  13. amber: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. AMBER (Very Large Telescope), AMBER, Amber (Amber album), Amber (Autechre album), Amber (TV series), Amber (band), Amber (color), Amber (disambiguation), Amber (film), Amber (given name), Amber (name), Amber (performer), Amber (processor core), Amber (restaurant), Amber (singer), Amber (song), Amber: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Amber: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. amber: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. amber: Rhymezone
  18. Amber: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. amber: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Amber (on Traffic Lights): Britih-American Dictionary
  21. AMBER, amber: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. amber: FreeDictionary.org
  23. amber: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. amber: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. amber: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Amber: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  27. amber: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  28. amber: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Beading Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Amber: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Amber: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. AMBER (file format), Amber (molecular dynamics), amber: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. amber: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. AMBER (file format), Amber (molecular dynamics), amber: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AMBER: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. amber: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Amber: Easton Bible
  2. Amber: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. AMBER: The Mineral Gallery
  3. amber: Natural History Terms
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amber, amber: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Amber)

noun:  (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
noun:  Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
noun:  A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
noun:  A yellow-orange colour.
noun:  (British, Australia) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
noun:  (biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
noun:  (uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
adjective:  Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.
verb:  (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
verb:  (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.
noun:  A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
noun:  A surname of uncertain origin.
noun:  A female given name from Hindi.
noun:  A city in Rajasthan, India, also known as Amer.
noun:  A river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Derwent at Ambergate.

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