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carbonado

Syllables: car·bon·a·do/ˌkɑːbəˈneɪdəʊ/US/ˌkɑɹbəˈneɪdoʊ/

carbonado noun: meat or fish that has been scored and broiled.

carbonado: meat or fish that has been scored and broiled
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Noun (1)

carbonado (plural carbonados or carbonadoes)

  1. (dated) Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled.
    • Take it vp Villain, and eat it, or I will make thee ſlice the brawnes of thy armes into carbonadoes, and eat them.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • […]to ſay the Troth on't before Corioles, he ſcotcht him, and notcht him like a Carbinado.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    Synonyms:
    carbonade

Verb

carbonado (third-person singular simple present carbonados, present participle carbonadoing, simple past and past participle carbonadoed)

  1. (also, dated, figuratively, transitive) To make a carbonado of; to score and broil.
    • Now for the manner of Carbonadoing it is in this ſort, you ſhall firſt take the meate you muſt Carbonadoe and ſcorche it both aboue and belowe; then ſprinkle good ſtore of ſalt vpon it, and baſte it all ouer with ſweet butter melted, […]1615, G[ervase] M[arkham], “[The English Hus-wife.] Of the Outward and Actiue Knowledges of the Hous-wife; and First of Her Skill in Cookery.”, in Countrey Contentments, in Two Bookes: The First...
    • Has he beſpoke, what will he have a brace, / Or but one Partridge, or a ſhort-leg'd Hen, / Daintyly carbonado'd?c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry...
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To cut or hack, as in combat.
    • Draw you raſcall, you bring letters againſt the King, and take Vanitie the puppets part, againſt the royaltie of her father, draw you rogue or ile ſo carbonado your shankes, […]c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...
    • In Moscow, a Count carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.1832 October 27, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Derwent Coleridge, “Tales out of School. A Dropt Letter from a Lady.”, in The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, […]. In Two Volumes, 4th edition, volume...
    Synonyms:
    slash

Noun (2)

carbonado (plural carbonados or carbonadoes)

  1. A dark, non-transparent, impure form of polycrystalline diamond (also containing graphite and amorphous carbon) used in drilling.
    • At present, equal attention is paid to irregular fragments of a blackish or greyish colour, occasionally of considerable size, also yielded by the washings of diamandiferous sand, which formerly passed unregarded. These fragments are now carefully colected, and have acquired some considerable value...1873 October, “Some New Facts Concerning the Diamond”, in William Crookes, editor, The Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy, Engineering, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and...
    • Brazil's carbonadoes are indispensable today for the speedy cutting of hard rubber, bakelite and fiber compounds. Their absolute precision is especially valuable in turning such instruments as high-power telescopes and microscope tubes.1928 January, Orville H. Kneen, “Gems that Work for a Living: Black Diamonds, the Most Precious Stones on Earth, Put to Curious Industrial Uses”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume 112, number 1...
    Synonyms:
    black diamond

carbonado meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

carbonado in Tamil

காபனாடோ, கருவயிரம்

carbonado in Indonesian

impure form of polycrystalline diamond
karbonado

Examples of carbonado in a sentence

  • The carbonadoes consisted of any meat scotched on both sides and sprinkled with seasonings in various combinations, and then either broiled over the fire or before it.1867, John Timbs, “The English Housewife”, in Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present, 2nd edition, London: Griffith and...
  • Take a breaſt of Veal, lard it very thick with bacon, and when it is boyled, Carbonado it long, and croſs-wayes; […]1675, William Rabisha, “Book IX. Contains Hash, Stewed, Broyled and Carbonadoed Meats.”, in The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected: […], 2nd...
  • All other traces of these impacts and the related impact structures apparently have been eroded, and only the carbonados had survived erosion and were then incorporated into sedimentary rocks.2005, Wolf Uwe Reimold et al., “Economic Mineral Deposits in Impact Structures: A Review”, in Christian Koeberl, Herbert Henkel, editors...

Synonyms of carbonado

Forms of carbonado

Noun
pluralcarbonados
pluralcarbonadoes
Verb
third-person singular presentcarbonados
present participlecarbonadoing
past participlecarbonadoed
pastcarbonadoed

Origin of carbonado

The noun is derived from Spanish carbonada (“carbonized”) (from carbonar (“to carbonize”)) + -ado (suffix forming past participles of regular verbs ending in -ar). Carbonada appears to have been modelled after Italian carbonata (“coal pile; stew of beef in red wine”), from carbone (“coal; charcoal”) (from Latin carbō (“coal; charcoal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to burn”)) + -ata. The verb is derived from the noun.

Borrowed from Portuguese carbonado (“carbonized”), probably from carbono (“carbon”) (currently only attested later than carbonado) + -ado (suffix forming adjectives from nouns meaning ‘something or someone who has suffered the action’). Carbono is borrowed from French carbone (“carbon”), from Latin carbō (“coal; charcoal”); for further derivation, see etymology 1.

Questions about carbonado

What does carbonado mean?
Carbonado means meat or fish that has been scored and broiled.
What is carbonado in Tamil?
Carbonado in Tamil is காபனாடோ, கருவயிரம். See Carbonado meaning in Tamil.
How do you use carbonado in a sentence?
The carbonadoes consisted of any meat scotched on both sides and sprinkled with seasonings in various combinations, and then either broiled over the fire or before it.
What part of speech is carbonado?
Carbonado can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce carbonado?
Carbonado is pronounced /ˌkɑːbəˈneɪdəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of carbonado?
The plural of carbonado is carbonados.

Words near carbonado in the dictionary

  1. carbonaceous chondrites
  2. carbonaceous ironstone
  3. carbonaceous ironstones
  4. carbonade
  5. carbonades
  6. carbonado
  7. carbonadoed
  8. carbonadoes
  9. carbonadoing
  10. carbonados
  11. carbonamide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carbonado (page history and authors); carbonado (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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