cerulean
adjective/sɪˈruːliən/
/sɪˈruːliən/
(literary)- deep blue in colourTopics Colours and Shapesc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryCerulean is used with these nouns:
- blue
- sky
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin caeruleus ‘sky blue’, from caelum ‘sky’.Definitions on the go
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