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, ivory, tusk

2. bone, ivory, pearl, off-whitenoun

   a shade of white the color of bleached bones

   Synonyms:
   drop, off-white, ivory, 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. Homer:

   Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

2. Samuel Wasser:

   We are currently losing an estimated 50,000 African elephants a year to poaching, and there are only about 470,000 elephants remaining in the population. So, that is about a 10th of the population being lost each year, this loss rate must be contained. Stopping (ivory) demand is too slow to do it alone. We urgently need to stop the killing.

3. President Alassane Ouattara:

   I condemn in the strongest terms these heinous and cowardly attacks on innocent people, ivory Coast will not be intimidated by terrorists.

4. President Uhuru Kenyatta:

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

5. Sam Wasser:

   Whenever that happened, those two seizures always were shipped out of the same port, close in time, and all of the ivory -- when we looked at the origin -- was highly in overlap, which suggests it was the same transnational criminal organization( TCO) moving both shipments.