A crow is as black as coal.
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Coal
//kəʊl//
Synonyms for "coal" (126 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (63)
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12 entriesMore specific
8 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesat location
8 entriescapable of
1 entriescoordinate
4 entriesderived
150 entriesShowing 16 of 150 words.
has context
1 entrieshas prerequisite
1 entriesis a
12 entriesmade of
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
194 entriesShowing 16 of 194 words.
used for
1 entriesTranslations
362 translations across 215 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- арацәа noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Adyghe
1 entries- шӏомыкӏы noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Afrikaans
1 entries- steenkool noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Albanian
2 entries- qymyr noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- qymyrgur noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Aleut
1 entries- uuglix̂ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἄνθραξ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ἄνθραξ noun (countable: carbon rock)
Arabic
4 entries- فحم noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- فحم noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- فَحَم noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- فَحْم noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Aramaic
2 entries- גמורתא noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ܓܡܘܪܬܐ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Armenian
3 entries- ածուխ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ածուխ noun (countable: carbon rock)
- քարածուխ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Aromanian
1 entries- cãrbuni noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Asháninka
1 entries- tsimenkito noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Assamese
1 entries- কয়লা noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Asturian
1 entries- carbón noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- daş kömür noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- kömür noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Bashkir
1 entries- күмер noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Basque
1 entries- ikatz noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Bavarian German
1 entries- kuin noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Belarusian
3 entries- ву́галь noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- вуго́льчык noun (countable: carbon rock)
- ка́менны ву́галь noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Bengali
1 entries- কয়লা noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Bikol Central
1 entries- uring noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Breton
1 entries- glaou noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Bulgarian
3 entries- въ́глен noun (countable: carbon rock)
- въ́глища noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ка́менни въ́глища noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Burmese
1 entries- ကျောက်မီးသွေး noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Catalan
3 entries- brasa noun (smouldering material)
- carbó noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carbó noun (countable: carbon rock)
Cebuano
2 entries- karbon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- uling noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Central Franconian
1 entries- koll noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- خەڵوزی بەرد noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ڕەژوو noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Chakma
1 entries- 𑄃𑄋𑄢𑄳𑄦 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Chamicuro
1 entries- kajs̈ho'meki noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Chechen
1 entries- кӏора noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏥᏃᏍᎦ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Chichewa
1 entries- malasha noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Chinese
4 entries- мый noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- мыйтан noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- 煤 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- 煤炭 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 煤 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- 煤炭 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 煤 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- 煤 noun (countable: carbon rock)
- 煤炭 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- 石炭 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Choctaw
1 entries- tobaksi noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Chol
1 entries- abʌc noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Church Slavic
2 entries- ѫгль noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ⱘⰳⰾⱐ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Chuvash
1 entries- кӑмрӑк noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Cornish
1 entries- glow noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Corsican
1 entries- carbone noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Cree
1 entries- ᑲᐢᑲᐢᑭᓰᐦᑲᐣ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Czech
1 entries- uhlí noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Dakota
2 entries- chaxdí noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- makhápheta noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Danish
1 entries- kul noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Dutch
4 entries- kool noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- kool noun (countable: carbon rock)
- kool noun (smouldering material)
- steenkool noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Elfdalian
1 entries- kuol noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Erzya
1 entries- седь noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Esperanto
2 entries- karbo noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- terkarbo noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Estonian
1 entries- süsi noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Evenki
1 entries- элла noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Faroese
1 entries- kol noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Finnish
3 entries- hiili noun (countable: carbon rock)
- hiillos noun (smouldering material)
- kivihiili noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
French
4 entries- charbon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- charbon noun (countable: carbon rock)
- houille noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- tisons noun (smouldering material)
Friulian
3 entries- cjarbon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- cjarvon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- čharvon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Galician
2 entries- carbón noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carbón noun (countable: carbon rock)
Georgian
1 entries- ნახშირი noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
German
4 entries- Kohle noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- Kohle noun (countable: carbon rock)
- Kohle noun (smouldering material)
- Steinkohle noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 noun (countable: carbon rock)
- 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 noun (smouldering material)
Greek
4 entries- άνθρακας noun (smouldering material)
- γαιάνθρακας noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- κάρβουνο noun (countable: carbon rock)
- κάρβουνο noun (smouldering material)
Greenlandic
1 entries- aamarsuit noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Gujarati
1 entries- કોયલો noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 石炭 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Hausa
1 entries- kwal noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Hawaiian
1 entries- lānahu noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Hebrew
1 entries- פֶּחָם noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Hindi
1 entries- कोयला noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Hungarian
3 entries- szén noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- szén noun (countable: carbon rock)
- szén noun (smouldering material)
Icelandic
1 entries- kol noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ido
1 entries- karbono noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Igbo
1 entries- obȯto noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ilocano
1 entries- uging noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Inari Sami
1 entries- čiđđâ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Indonesian
2 entries- batu bara noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- kol noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ingush
1 entries- кӏор noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐊᕐᔭᒃᓴᖅ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- اَنْگِشْت noun (countable: carbon rock)
- ذُغال noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ذُغال noun (countable: carbon rock)
- ذُغالسَنْگ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Irish
4 entries- aibhleog noun (smouldering material)
- gual noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- smeachóid noun (smouldering material)
- sméaróid noun (smouldering material)
Isnag
1 entries- uxing noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Isthmus Zapotec
1 entries- buu noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Italian
3 entries- carbone noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carbone noun (countable: carbon rock)
- tizzone noun (smouldering material)
Japanese
4 entries- 煤炭 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- 煤炭 noun (countable: carbon rock)
- 石炭 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- 石炭 noun (countable: carbon rock)
Kabardian
1 entries- фӏамыщӏ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Kannada
3 entries- ಇಜ್ಜಿಲು noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ಇದ್ದಲು noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ಕಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಲು noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Karachay-Balkar
1 entries- кёмюр noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Karelian
1 entries- hiili noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Kazakh
1 entries- көмір noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Khakas
1 entries- кӧмір noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Khmer
1 entries- ធ្យូង noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Konkani
1 entries- इन्गाळो noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Korean
4 entries- 매탄 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- 매탄 noun (countable: carbon rock)
- 석탄 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- 석탄 noun (countable: carbon rock)
Koyraboro-Senni
1 entries- denji noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Kumyk
1 entries- кёмюр noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- көмүр noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ladino
2 entries- karvon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- קארביון noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Lak
2 entries- кӏалаш noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- хъуручӏ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Lao
1 entries- ຖ່ານຫີນ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Latgalian
1 entries- ūgle noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Latin
1 entries- carbō noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Latvian
2 entries- akmeņogle noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ogle noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Laz
2 entries- ნოშქეი noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ნოშქერი noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Limburgish
3 entries- kaol noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- keul noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- koeal noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Lingala
1 entries- makala noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Lithuanian
2 entries- akmens anglis noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- anglis noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Low German
1 entries- kuole noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Luba-Kasai
1 entries- dikala noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Luba-Katanga
1 entries- dikala noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ludian
1 entries- hilʹ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Kuel noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Macedonian
3 entries- јаглен noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ќумур noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ќумур noun (smouldering material)
Maguindanao
1 entries- uling noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Malagasy
2 entries- arintany noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- tomboka noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Malay
2 entries- arang batu noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- arang batu noun (countable: carbon rock)
Malayalam
1 entries- കൽക്കരി noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Maltese
1 entries- faħam noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠶᠠᡥᠠ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Manx
2 entries- geayl noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- geayl noun (smouldering material)
Mapudungun
1 entries- kuyub noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Maranao
1 entries- oring noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Marathi
2 entries- कोळसा noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- कोळसा noun (countable: carbon rock)
Mezquital-Otomi
1 entries- theñha noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Mingrelian
1 entries- ნოშქვერი noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Mohawk
1 entries- o’swén:ta noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Moksha
1 entries- седь noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Mongolian
2 entries- нүүрс noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ᠨᠡᠭᠦᠷᠡᠰᠦ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Montagnais
2 entries- katshitekan noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- mashku-katshiteu noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Māori
3 entries- konga noun (smouldering material)
- ngoungou noun (smouldering material)
- waro noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Nahuatl
1 entries- teconalli noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Navajo
3 entries- tsékǫʼ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- łeejin noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- łeejin noun (countable: carbon rock)
Neapolitan
3 entries- carvùnë noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- cravone noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- grauna noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Nepali
1 entries- कोइला noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Norman
3 entries- qùerboun noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- tcherbaon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- tchèrbon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- komirr noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- kumirr noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- rejî noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Northern Sami
1 entries- geađgekoalla noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kol noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- kull noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kol noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Occitan
1 entries- carbon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Odia
1 entries- କୋଇଲା noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ojibwe
1 entries- akakanshe noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Old East Slavic
2 entries- угль noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- угъль noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ossetian
1 entries- ӕвзалы noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كومور noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Pangasinan
1 entries- oring noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Pashto
1 entries- ذغال noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Pennsylvania German
1 entries- Kohl noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Pirahã
1 entries- hoaípói noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Kol noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Polabian
1 entries- vǫďėl noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Polish
1 entries- węgiel noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Portuguese
4 entries- brasa noun (smouldering material)
- carvão noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carvão noun (countable: carbon rock)
- hulha noun (countable: carbon rock)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਕੋਲਾ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Quechua
1 entries- k'illimsa noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Rapa Nui
2 entries- arahu noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ngarahu noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Romagnol
2 entries- carbôn noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carbôn noun (countable: carbon rock)
Romanian
4 entries- cărbune noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- cărbune noun (countable: carbon rock)
- cărbune noun (smouldering material)
- tăciune noun (smouldering material)
Romansch
4 entries- carvung noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- charbun noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- charvun noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- cotgel noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Russian
3 entries- ка́менный у́голь noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- у́голь noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- уголёк noun (countable: carbon rock)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अंगारः noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Sardinian
4 entries- calvone noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carbone noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carboni noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carvone noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- gual noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- gual noun (countable: carbon rock)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ugalj noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ugljen noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ćumur noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- угаљ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Shor
1 entries- кӧбӱр noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Sicilian
4 entries- carbuni noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carvuni noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- crauni noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- cravuni noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Silesian
1 entries- wōngel noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Sinhalese
1 entries- ගල්අතුරු noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Slovak
1 entries- uhlie noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Slovene
2 entries- ogel noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- premog noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Somali
1 entries- dhuxul noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Spanish
4 entries- brasa noun (smouldering material)
- carbón noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- carbón noun (countable: carbon rock)
- hulla noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Swabian
1 entries- kohle noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Swahili
2 entries- kaa noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- mkaa noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Swazi
1 entries- lilahla noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Swedish
4 entries- glöd noun (smouldering material)
- kol noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- kol noun (countable: carbon rock)
- kolbit noun (countable: carbon rock)
Tagalog
1 entries- uling noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Tajik
4 entries- ангишт noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- ангишт noun (countable: carbon rock)
- ангиштсанг noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- зуғолсанг noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Tamil
1 entries- நிலக்கரி noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Taos
1 entries- ùyphaʼána noun (countable: carbon rock)
Tatar
1 entries- күмер noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Telugu
1 entries- బొగ్గు noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Tetum
1 entries- anar noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Thai
1 entries- ถ่านหิน noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Tibetan
2 entries- རྡོ་གསོལ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- རྡོ་སོལ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Turkish
1 entries- kömür noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Turkmen
1 entries- kömür noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Tzeltal
1 entries- ac'al noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Tzotzil
1 entries- ac'al noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Udmurt
1 entries- эгыр noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ву́гля noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- вугі́лля noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- вугі́ллячко noun (countable: carbon rock)
- ка́м'яне вугі́лля noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- wuhlo noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Urdu
3 entries- اَن٘گِشْت noun (countable: carbon rock)
- زُغال noun (countable: carbon rock)
- کوئِلَہ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Uyghur
1 entries- كۆمۈر noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Uzbek
1 entries- koʻmir noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Vehes
1 entries- carbó noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Venetan
1 entries- carbon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Veps
1 entries- hilʹ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Vietnamese
1 entries- than đá noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Vilamovian
1 entries- köła noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Volapük
1 entries- kolat noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Votic
1 entries- süsi noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Võro
1 entries- hüdsi noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Walloon
2 entries- hoye noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- tcherbon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Waray-Waray
2 entries- karbon noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- uring noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Welsh
4 entries- colsyn noun (smouldering material)
- glo noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- glöyn noun (countable: carbon rock)
- marworyn noun (smouldering material)
West-Frisian
1 entries- koal noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
White Hmong
2 entries- thee noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
- thee noun (countable: carbon rock)
Wolof
1 entries- këriñ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 煤 noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Xhosa
1 entries- amalahle noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Yakut
1 entries- чох noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Yiddish
1 entries- קויל noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Yucatec Maya
1 entries- chúuk noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Yup'ik
1 entries- cupun noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Yámana
1 entries- ikipašax noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Zoogocho Zapotec
1 entries- baoꞌ noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Zulu
1 entries- amalahle noun (uncountable: carbon rock)
Sample sentences
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We have used our ration of coal for the week.
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The vessel was loaded with coal, lumber, and so on.
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Will the strike affect the price of coal?
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