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Definition: Coal-black |
Coal-blackAdjective1. Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coal-black" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: Coal-blackSynonyms: jet (adj), jet-black (adj), pitchy (adj), sooty (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: coal-black fibrous rotten humus (biology & biotechnology, chemistry), coal-black fibrous wet forest humus (biology & biotechnology, chemistry), coal-black greasy rotten humus (biology & biotechnology, chemistry), coal-black greasy wet forest humus (biology & biotechnology, chemistry). |
Crosswords: Coal-black |
| English words defined with "coal-black": Anthraconite, Atrous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coal-black": coal-black fibrous rotten humus, Cyllaros. (references) |
| "Coal-black" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coal-black" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "coal-black"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 煤炭黑. (various references) | |
Finnish | sysimusta (jet-black). (various references) | |
Korean | 석탄 까만. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oal-blackcay.(various references) | |
Russian | черный как смоль (coal black, ebony, jet black, jet-black, jetty, pitch-black). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đen như than. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-k-l-l-o" | |
-1 letter: callback. | |
-2 letters: cloacal. | |
-3 letters: abolla, cloaca. | |
-4 letters: aback, acock, alack, bacca, black, block, cabal, cacao, calla, clack, cloak, clock, coala, koala, local. | |
-5 letters: alba, baal, back, balk, ball, bloc, bock, bola, boll, caca, calk, call, calo, coal, coca, cola, kola, lack, loca, lock, olla. | |
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