Azure
5 lettersadjectiveUpdated June 2026
Definition
Bright blue in colour, like a cloudless sky; in heraldry, the colour blue.
“The azure sky stretched endlessly above the desert.”
Pronunciation
IPA
/ˈæʒ.ə/
Syllables
az·ure
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