anthracite

anthracite

English

A nugget of anthracite.

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”); surface analysis, anthrac- +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/

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Noun

anthracite (countable and uncountable, plural anthracites)

1. A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.

   Synonym: hard coal

2. A dark grey colour.

   anthracite:  

   • 2013, Sylvia Leydecker, Designing Interior Architecture (page 32)

     In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!

Coordinate terms

• semianthracite
• bituminous coal
• sub-bituminous coal
• brown coal (lignite)

Translations

type of coal

Bulgarian: антрацит (bg) m (antracit) Catalan: antracita f Chinese: Mandarin: 無煙煤／无烟煤 (zh) (wúyānméi) Danish: antracit (da) c Estonian: antratsiit Finnish: antrasiitti (fi) French: anthracite (fr) m Galician: antracita (gl) f Georgian: ანტრაციტი (anṭraciṭi) German: Anthrazit (de) m Irish: clochghual m Italian: antracite (it) f Japanese: 無煙炭 (むえんたん, muentan) Macedonian: антраци́т m (antracít) Norwegian: Bokmål: antrasitt m Nynorsk: antrasitt m Ottoman Turkish: آنتراسیت‎ (antrasit) Polish: antracyt (pl) m Portuguese: antracite f, antracito m Russian: антраци́т (ru) m (antracít) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: антра̀цӣт m Roman: antràcīt (sh) m Spanish: antracita (es) f Swedish: antracit (sv) c Tagalog: antrasita Turkish: antrasit (tr)

dark gray color

Polish: antracyt (pl) m, antracytowy (pl) m

Anagrams

• cathartine

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

anthracite m (plural anthracites)

1. anthracite (all senses)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: آنتراسیت‎ (antrasit)
  • → Turkish: antrasit

Further reading

• “anthracite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.