Lignite is a fossil fuel.
Source: tatoeba (797339)
Lignite
//ˈlɪɡnaɪ̯t//
Synonyms for "lignite" (8 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (2)
Related words (4)
Noun(2 words)
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4 entriesTranslations
88 translations across 63 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- bruinkool noun (coal)
- ligniet noun (coal)
Albanian
1 entries- linjiti noun (coal)
Arabic
1 entries- فحم بني noun (coal)
Armenian
2 entries- գորշ ածուխ noun (coal)
- լիգնիտ noun (coal)
Asturian
1 entries- lignitu noun (coal)
Basque
2 entries- ikatz arrea noun (coal)
- lignito noun (coal)
Belarusian
2 entries- бу́ры ву́галь noun (coal)
- лігніт noun (coal)
Bengali
1 entries- লিগনাইট noun (coal)
Bulgarian
1 entries- лигнит noun (coal)
Burmese
1 entries- ကျောက်မီးသွေးနု noun (coal)
Catalan
1 entries- lignit noun (coal)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 褐煤 noun (coal)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 褐煤 noun (coal)
Czech
2 entries- hnědé uhlí noun (coal)
- lignit noun (coal)
Danish
1 entries- brunkul noun (coal)
Dutch
1 entries- bruinkool noun (coal)
Esperanto
1 entries- lignito noun (coal)
Estonian
1 entries- pruunsüsi noun (coal)
Finnish
1 entries- ruskohiili noun (coal)
French
1 entries- lignite noun (coal)
Galician
1 entries- lignito noun (coal)
Georgian
1 entries- მურა ნახშირი noun (coal)
German
1 entries- Braunkohle noun (coal)
Greek
1 entries- λιγνίτης noun (coal)
Hebrew
1 entries- ליגניט noun (coal)
Hindi
1 entries- लिग्नाइट noun (coal)
Hungarian
2 entries- barnaszén noun (coal)
- lignit noun (coal)
Icelandic
2 entries- brúnkol noun (coal)
- surtarbrandur noun (coal)
Ido
1 entries- lignito noun (coal)
Indonesian
1 entries- lignit noun (coal)
Irish
1 entries- gual donn noun (coal)
Italian
1 entries- lignite noun (coal)
Japanese
2 entries- 亜炭 noun (coal)
- 褐炭 noun (coal)
Kazakh
1 entries- лигнит noun (coal)
Korean
2 entries- 갈탄 noun (coal)
- 아탄 noun (coal)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- күрөң көмүр noun (coal)
Latin
1 entries- lignitus noun (coal)
Latvian
2 entries- brūnogles noun (coal)
- lignīts noun (coal)
Lithuanian
2 entries- lignitas noun (coal)
- rusvoji anglis noun (coal)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- brunica noun (coal)
- bruny wugel noun (coal)
Macedonian
1 entries- ли́гнит noun (coal)
Malagasy
1 entries- linita noun (coal)
Mongolian
1 entries- хүрэн нүүрс noun (coal)
Navajo
1 entries- łeejin noun (coal)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- brunkol noun (coal)
- brunkull noun (coal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- brunkol noun (coal)
Persian
1 entries- زغال قهوهای noun (coal)
Polish
1 entries- węgiel brunatny noun (coal)
Portuguese
4 entries- lignite noun (coal)
- lignito noun (coal)
- linhite noun (coal)
- linhito noun (coal)
Romanian
2 entries- cărbune brun noun (coal)
- lignit noun (coal)
Russian
2 entries- бу́рый у́голь noun (coal)
- лигни́т noun (coal)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lìgnīt noun (coal)
- лѝгнӣт noun (coal)
Slovak
2 entries- hnedé uhlie noun (coal)
- lignit noun (coal)
Slovene
2 entries- lignit noun (coal)
- rjavi premog noun (coal)
Spanish
1 entries- lignito noun (coal)
Swedish
2 entries- brunkol noun (coal)
- lignit noun (coal)
Telugu
1 entries- లిగ్నైట్ noun (coal)
Thai
1 entries- ลิกไนต์ noun (coal)
Turkish
1 entries- linyit noun (coal)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бу́ре вугі́лля noun (coal)
- лігні́т noun (coal)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- brune wuhlo noun (coal)
- brunica noun (coal)
Uzbek
2 entries- lignit noun (coal)
- лигнит noun (coal)
Vietnamese
1 entries- than nâu noun (coal)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The opencast lignite mines in Germany cover tens of square kilometers.
Source: tatoeba (3175264)
Texas industry is turning to lignite, a kind of poor man's coal, to replace its dwindling allocations of natural gas. The Lone Star State now gets an estimated 12 percent of its electricity from lignite, and that figure is expected to double by 1985.
Source: wiktionary
[Robert] Habeck, who has found himself in the extremely uncomfortable position of turning from a long-term campaigner against fossil fuels to a short-term defender of them, said: “Putin’s war of aggression is forcing us to temporarily make greater use of lignite so that we save gas in electricity generation. This is painful but necessary in view of the shortage of gas.”
Source: wiktionary
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