Synonyms for ivory
ˈaɪ və ri, ˈaɪ vriivo·ry

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1. ivory, tusknoun

   a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

   Synonyms:
   bone, off-white, pearl, tusk

2. bone, ivory, pearl, off-whitenoun

   a shade of white the color of bleached bones

   Synonyms:
   drop, off-white, bead, pearl, os, osseous tissue, bone, tusk

Matched Categories

1. • Dentine
   • White

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. ivorynoun

   Associated words:
   eburnean, eburnine, eburin, eburnification, eburnation

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1. List of paraphrases for "ivory":

   marfil, 'ivoire, ivorian, ivoire

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How to use ivory in a sentence?

1. Dejan Stojanovic:

   If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

2. Charlie Mayhew:

   Whether we like it or not, our market is complicit in the trade in ivory, the big concern that we have at the moment is that there is evidence that unscrupulous traders and dealers are using the 1947 rule to disguise more modern ivory as being pre-1947, when it's not.

3. Aimee Bahng:

   Even though we might be sort of cloistered away in the ivory tower or something, we felt very much moved by, incited by, inspired by a lot of the activists' work following the failure to indict Darren Wilson after the events in Ferguson, we wanted to not leave this behind after winter break.

4. President Uhuru Kenyatta:

   Kenya is making a statement that for us ivory is worthless unless it is on our elephants.

5. Leon Barron:

   This is the first time that fingerprinting on ivory has been thoroughly investigated and a practical solution offered, the only other study carried out over a decade ago simply showed that fingerprints were unstable and that the clarity of ridge detail was low, making it difficult to make reliable identifications.