Word Study
cerulean
CIDE DICTIONARY
cerulean, a. [L. caeruleus.].
Sky-colored; blue; azure. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
"Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall" [1913 Webster]
"A flower from its cerulean wall." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cerulean, adj. & n. literary
--adj. deep blue like a clear sky.
--n. this colour.
--adj. deep blue like a clear sky.
--n. this colour.
Etymology
L caeruleus sky-blue f. caelum sky
THESAURUS
cerulean
Caelus, air, azure, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureous, beryl-blue, berylline, blue, blue sky, bluish, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, ceruleous, cerulescent, cope, cyanean, dark-blue, deep-blue, empyrean, ether, firmament, heaven, heavens, hyaline, lift, lifts, light-blue, lightish-blue, livid, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, sapphire, sapphirine, sky, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, starry heaven, the blue, the blue serene, turquoise, vault, vault of heaven, welkinROGET THESAURUS
cerulean
Blueness
N blueness, blue, garter-blue, watchet, ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen, Prussian blue, syenite blue, bice, indigo, zaffer, lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise, indicolite, blueness, bluishness, bloom, blue, azure, cerulean, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, cerulescent, powder blue, bluish, atmospheric, retiring, cold.For further exploring for "cerulean" in Webster Dictionary Online
