ceramic

From Ancient Greek κεραμικός (keramikós, “potter's”), from κέραμος (kéramos, “potter's clay”), perhaps from a pre-Hellenic word or from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₂- (“to heat, burn, fire”).

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈɹæmɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æmɪk

ceramic (not comparable)

1. Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.

   A ceramic vase stood on the table.

   • 2021 April 5, Jessica Bumpus, “Ceramics Are in Fashion”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     And over the past year, a new crop of collaborations between designers and artists has turned a spotlight on ceramic sculptures characterized by organic and biomorphic forms.

ceramic (countable and uncountable, plural ceramics)

1. (uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature.

   Joan made the dish from ceramic.

2. (countable) An object made of this material.

   Joe had dozens of ceramics in his apartment.

   • 2021 April 5, Jessica Bumpus, “Ceramics Are in Fashion”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Photographed by Juergen Teller, the project included a series of JW Anderson women’s wear looks, still-life images and sketches of Ms. Odundo and Ms. Corbett’s ceramics, as well as their portraits, and blankets designed as part of the collaboration.

• comb ceramic
• glass-ceramic

• → Malay: seramik

• kaolin, kaoline

• ceramics

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[3]

• racemic

ceramic

1. ceramic

Borrowed from French céramique.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈra.mik/

ceramic m or n (feminine singular ceramică, masculine plural ceramici, feminine and neuter plural ceramice)

1. ceramic

• “ceramic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025