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anthracites

anthracites is the plural of anthracite.

Meaning of anthracite

Noun

anthracite (countable and uncountable, plural anthracites)

  1. A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.
    Synonyms:
    hard coal
  2. A dark grey color.
    • 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!2013, Sylvia Leydecker, Designing Interior Architecture, page 32

Questions about anthracites

What is anthracites the plural of?
Anthracites is the plural of anthracite.

Words near anthracites in the dictionary

  1. anthrachelin
  2. anthracic
  3. anthraciferous
  4. anthracin
  5. anthracite
  6. anthracites
  7. anthracitic
  8. anthracitism
  9. anthracitization
  10. anthracitous
  11. anthracnose

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