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- [kohl]
- /koʊl/
- /kəʊl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kohl]
- /koʊl/
Definitions of coal word
- uncountable noun coal Coal is a hard black substance that is extracted from the ground and burned as fuel. 3
- noun plural coal Coals are burning pieces of coal. 3
- noun coal a combustible compact black or dark-brown carbonaceous rock formed from compaction of layers of partially decomposed vegetation: a fuel and a source of coke, coal gas, and coal tar 3
- noun coal (as modifier) 3
- noun coal one or more lumps of coal 3
- verb coal to take in, provide with, or turn into coal 3
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Origin of coal
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English cole, Old English col; cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohle, Old Norse kol
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Parts of speech for Coal
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
coal popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for coal
noun coal
- slack — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- smut — a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- char — If food chars or if you char it, it burns slightly and turns black as it is cooking.
- stoke — to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
- carbon — Carbon is a chemical element that diamonds and coal are made up of.
adjective coal
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- starless — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- stygian — of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
- sloe — the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
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