"diamond" is an entirely correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it in any variety of contexts to refer to the precious gemstone, or in figurative ways, such as in the phrase "a diamond in the rough." Example sentence: "The diamond glittered brightly in the morning sunlight."
Orinduik is home to a diamond mining community and we're joined by an Amerindian man, the father of a bemused boy we have befriended.
"It's not ideological and it's not the gung-ho image one has from the film Blood Diamond.
In the 1840s diamond prospecters flocked here but now it is a protected area and very peaceful.
It all came to a head on Sunday night, though, when she appeared on the red carpet in an ice-blue number with a delicate gold and diamond headband, and a froggy ring on the little finger of her right hand.
It was impossible to estimate how much the thieves had got away with and the stolen goods would include family heirlooms and personal jewellery as well as stock from gem, diamond and pearl dealers, he said.
[Russian diamond company] Alrosa has prospecting mining operations in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
3 Damien Hirst finally sells that diamond-encrusted skull.
She is the perfect winner of American Idol, embodying the show's diamond-in-the-rough conceit.
One of the things Arthur was so marvellous at was in giving you a crystal clear line through things, honing it down to diamond-like clarity.
They're the size and shape of tobacco cigarettes, in pastel colours with a large, sparkly, diamond-effect tip.
Gary Barlow, in contrast, performed before the Queen at her Diamond Jubilee concert wearing a scrupulously clean thong, received an OBE for his services to charity in 2012, and once climbed Kilimanjaro with Fearne Cotton for Comic Relief, the latter an image more disturbing than anything a Google of Allin will throw up.
