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jeweler

/ˈdʒu(ə)lər/
/ˈdʒulə/
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Other forms: jewelers

A jeweler is someone whose job involves making or selling necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. Thinking about buying your sweetheart something for Valentine's Day? A jeweler can show you some beautiful rings.

You might also visit a jeweler to get your jewelry repaired, or to buy a fancy watch. We've been making and wearing jewelry, small decorative ornaments, for just about as long as humans have existed. Today, when we want to buy jewelry, particularly expensive or fine pieces, we visit a jeweler. Both words stem from jewel and its Latin root, jocus, which can mean "that which causes joy."

Definitions of jeweler
  1. noun
    someone in the business of selling jewelry
    synonyms: jeweller
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    type of:
    merchandiser, merchant
    a businessperson engaged in retail trade
  2. noun
    someone who makes jewelry
    synonyms: jeweller, jewelry maker
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    types:
    gold-worker, goldsmith, goldworker
    an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold
    silver-worker, silversmith, silverworker
    someone who makes or repairs articles of silver
    type of:
    maker, shaper
    a person who makes things
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