jeweller

«jeweller» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who makes, sells or repairs jewellery and watches — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a jeweller, jewellers; US spelling jeweler)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person who makes, sells or repairs jewellery and watches. tree →

2) A jeweller's: a shop that sells jewellery. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: you take a broken necklace to the jeweller. In stories: a jeweller in a shop full of rings and watches. Phrases: the jeweller's (shop), a jeweller's shop.

examples

• Mum took her broken watch to the jeweller. tree →
• The jeweller fixed the clasp on my necklace. tree →
• We looked at rings in the jeweller's window. tree →
• A jeweller uses a tiny magnifying glass to check diamonds. tree →
• The jeweller's shop was closed on Sunday. tree →
• My aunt is a jeweller who makes silver earrings. tree →
• He sold his little box to a jeweller for a good price, bought a house and opened a workshop. tree →

note

Spelling: jeweller (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada often too) and jeweler (USA). Same pattern: jewellery / jewelry. "The jeweller's" with an apostrophe means the shop.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «jeweller» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.