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A nugget of anthracite.

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

• IPA(key): /ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/

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)

• anthraciferous

• anthracitic

• anthracitism

• meta-anthracite

type of coal

• Albanian: antracit (sq) m

• Bulgarian: антраци́т (bg) m (antracít), антрацит (bg) m (antracit)

• Catalan: antracita f

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 無煙煤 / 无烟煤 (zh) (wúyānméi)

• Danish: antracit (da) c

• Dutch: antraciet (nl)

• Estonian: antratsiit

• Finnish: antrasiitti (fi)

• French: anthracite (fr) m

• Galician: antracita (gl) f

• Georgian: ანტრაციტი (anṭraciṭi)

• German: Anthrazit (de) m

• Greek: ανθρακίτης (el) m (anthrakítis)
  Ancient Greek: ἀνθρακῖτις f (anthrakîtis)

• Irish: clochghual m

• Italian: antracite (it) f

• Japanese: 無煙炭 (ja) (むえんたん, muentan)

• Korean: 무연탄(無煙炭) (ko) (muyeontan)

• Macedonian: антраци́т m (antracít)

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: antrasitt m
  Nynorsk: antrasitt m

• Polish: antracyt (pl) m

• Portuguese: antracite f, antracito m

• Romanian: antracit (ro) n

• Russian: антраци́т (ru) m (antracít)

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: антра̀цӣт m
  Latin: antràcīt (sh) m

• Spanish: antracita (es) f

• Swedish: antracit (sv) c

• Tagalog: antrasita

• Turkish: antrasit (tr), taş kömürü (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: آنتراسیت (antrasit)

• cathartine

• IPA(key): /ɑ̃.tʁa.sit/

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