diamond ring

English

diamond ring (plural diamond rings)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see diamond,‎ ring.
- 1907, Recreation, National Recreation Association, page 545:
  If that mocking bird don’t^[sic] sing // Daddy’s going to buy me a diamond ring. // If that diamond ring don’t^[sic] shine // Daddy’s going to buy me a bottle of wine.
By extension, an engagement ring, usually one given by a man to a woman.
- 1923, Peter Bernard Kyne, Never the Twain Shall Meet, page 19:
  If it were not a tradition that a woman shall accept from her fiance a diamond ring which the idiot cannot, in all probability, afford to give her — well, women would not accept them.
- 2006, Mary Slonaker, The Vinton House, page 37:
  “Delvin, a diamond ring means you are engaged to be married. I barely know you.”
- 2010, Juliet Blackwell, If Walls Could Talk: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery:
  He frowned slightly, whether at the loss of a potential sale or the unnaturalness of a single woman standing beside a handsome man and not lusting after a diamond ring I couldn't be sure.
(astronomy) An optical phenomenon visible during a moment of a solar eclipse when only a tiny part of the sun is not obscured by the moon, shining like a diamond in the ring of the sun’s corona.

finger ring on which is mounted a diamond

Chinese:
Mandarin: 鑽戒／钻戒 (zh) (zuànjiè)
Danish: diamantring c
Finnish: timanttisormus (fi)
German: Diamantring (de) m
Japanese: ダイヤモンドリング (ja) (daiyamondo ringu), ダイヤの指輪 (daiya no yubiwa)
Marathi: हिर्‍याची अंगठी f (hir‍yācī aṅgṭhī)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: diamantring m

Nynorsk: diamantring m
Russian: кольцо́ с бриллиа́нтом n (kolʹcó s brilliántom), бриллиа́нтовое кольцо́ n (brilliántovoje kolʹcó)
Swedish: diamantring c
Turkish: pırlanta (tr)

optical phenomenon during a solar eclipse