Word.ws English Dictionary

tanite

tanite noun: a firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.

Noun (1)

tanite

  1. (historical, possibly a trademark) A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.

Noun (2) capitalized: Tanite

Tanite (plural Tanites)

  1. (historical) A member of the Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt, whose political capital was based at Tanis.

Forms of tanite

pluralTanites

Questions about tanite

What does tanite mean?
Tanite means a firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
What part of speech is tanite?
Tanite is a noun.
What is the plural of tanite?
The plural of tanite is Tanites.

Words near tanite in the dictionary

  1. tanistry
  2. tanists
  3. tanistship
  4. tanistships
  5. Tanit
  6. tanite
  7. Tanites
  8. Tanith
  9. Tanitic
  10. taniwha
  11. taniwhas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tanite (page history and authors); Tanite (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tanite.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tanite. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.