anthracite

Via Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- +‎ -ite.

• IPA^(key): /ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/

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anthracite (countable and uncountable, plural anthracites)

1. A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.

   Synonym: hard coal

2. A dark grey color.

   anthracite:  

   • 2013, Sylvia Leydecker, Designing Interior Architecture, page 32:

     In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!

• semianthracite
• bituminous coal
• sub-bituminous coal
• brown coal (lignite)

• cathartine

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anthracite m (plural anthracites)

1. anthracite (all senses)

• → Ottoman Turkish: آنتراسیت (antrasit)
  • → Turkish: antrasit

• “anthracite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.