A hard, generally yellow to browntranslucentfossilresin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. [from 15th c.]
A brownish yellow colour.
(Britain) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
“As one approaches a set of lights and the light turns amber, the right response is not to press the accelerator, but to hit the brakes and come to a stop as the light turns red.”
