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Definition of amber : 1. A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
2. Ambergris.
3. color, or anything amber- colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
4. Consisting of amber; made of amber.
5. Resembling amber, especially in color; amber- colored.
6. The balsam, liquidambar.
7. To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
8. To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.

Synonyms:

baby-blue, cultured pearl, tan, black, atomic number 79, yellowish, bluish, beige, amethyst, alabaster, pearl, mother-of-pearl, coral, tortoiseshell, chromatic, avocado, blue, azure, jade, rhinestone, paste, yellow-brown, brownish-yellow, brown

copalite, myrrh, gum shellac, agar, chicle, lacquer, balsam, gum, coal tar, gutta-percha, pitch, guaiacum, rosin, oleoresin, ambergris, mastic, frankincense, mineral pitch, algin, tar, shellac, resin, varnish, gum ammoniac, bitumen, asphalt, camphor, sealing wax

gold, buff, honey, crocus, dandelion, sunny, saffron, maize, sunshine, aurin, yellow, canary, creamy, sulfur, chartreuse, tawny, citron, honey-colored, sandy, buttery, jasmine, champagne, primrose, ecru, xanthic, gilded, golden, fallow, straw, flaxen, mustard, cream-colored, jaundiced, sallow, lemon, goldenrod

Usage examples:

• Am'ber, the color of amber, yellow. - "McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader", William Holmes McGuffey.
• It happened to be a glorious autumn day, with the sunlight streaming gold and amber over the grassy slopes. - "The Mysterious Rider", Zane Grey.
• Across the river from their stopping- place, where an amber sun was going down, the horizon was near. - "The Plow-Woman", Eleanor Gates.