Meaning

1 senses

  1. A black colour, like that of coal; charcoal.

    a very dark black

Examples

2 sentences

  1. No matter how much you lap coal, it stays black.

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  2. Snow is white, coal is black, gold is yellow, rubies are red, emeralds are green, topaz is blue, and amethysts are purple.

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Origin

From Middle English colblak, colblake, cole-blak, cole-blake, coleblacke, colle blake, fro

From Middle English colblak, colblake, cole-blak, cole-blake, coleblacke, colle blake, from the phrase blak as cole (“black as coal”).

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Forms

plural: coal blacks
Singularcoal black
Pluralcoal blacks

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a very dark black:ebonyjet blackpitch blacksablesoot black

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbone black

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
coagulatecoalB1coalitionB2coarseB2coastA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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