Crystal

See also: crystal

English

Alternative forms

• (given name and surname): Chrystal

Proper noun

Crystal

1. A female given name from English.
   • 2000, Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 121, 298:

     "Crystal's pretty. The name, I mean."
     Jewel shook her head. "It doesn't look like her. She looks like Beaver Cleaver." […]
     Crys chuckled. For the first time since she'd planted herself fiercely on Lusa's driveway that morning she sounded clear and transparent, like a child. Like the crystal she was.

   • 2004, Jonathan Kellerman, Therapy, →ISBN, page 335:

     "No prob. I'm wired, anyway...Christa or Crystal. Why'd Kayla peg her for a stripper?"
     "Because Gavin said she was a dancer," I said.
     "Well," he said, "name a girl Crystal and what's more likely? That she'll get a Ph.D. in biomechanics, or end up shaking her tail for tips?"

   • 2013, Chuck Dozier, The Second Time Around, page 167:

     Crystal just stood there with a semisad look on her face.

2. A surname.
   • 1998, David Crystal, Language Play:

     In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them.

3. A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
4. A town in Maine.
5. A city in Minnesota.
6. A census-designated place in New Mexico.
7. A city and town in North Dakota.
8. A town in Wisconsin.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Crystal.

Proper noun

Crystal

1. a female given name from English

German

Noun

Crystal n (strong, genitive Crystals, no plural)

1. crystal meth

Declension

Declension of Crystal [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Crystal
genitive	eines	des	Crystals
dative	einem	dem	Crystal
accusative	ein	das	Crystal