coal

Meaning of coal

noun
  1. A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
    Put some coal on the fire.
  2. A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
    Put some coals on the fire.
  3. A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
  4. A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
    Just as the camp-fire died down to just coals, with no flames to burn the marshmallows, someone dumped a whole load of wood on, so I gave up and went to bed.
  5. Charcoal.
verb
  1. To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
  2. To supply with coal.
    to coal a steamer
  3. To be converted to charcoal.
  4. To burn to charcoal; to char.
  5. To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Information about coal

  • The plural form of coal is: coals.
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Hyphenation of coal

coal

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • coal is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

coal synonyms

Meaning ember:

ember

Meaning char:

char

Translation of coal

Anagrams of coal

Acol, Alco, alco, calo, Cola, cola, loca

Words that rhyme with coal

recoal, Wolfcoal, smallcoal, Parcoal, charcoal, softcoal, drycoal

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