coal
/koʊl/noun, verb1 syllable
Coal means: a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering.
Synonyms for coal2
noun, as in a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
ember
verb, as in burn to charcoal
char
What does coal mean?5
noun
1
a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
2
fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
verb
1
burn to charcoal“Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything”
2
supply with coal
3
take in coal“The big ship coaled”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with coal?23
Coal in a sentence
- Charcoal, a substance similar to coal, is produced from wood.sundown
- Like coal, peat can also be burnt as fuel.frzzl
- The vessel was loaded with coal, lumber, and so on.hecko
- While excavating the foundations, the workers dug through coal instead of soil.CM
- Put some coal in the oven, so that the milk will start boiling.human600
- Iran has significant reserves of coal, uranium, and other minerals.Amastan
- Like coal, peat can also be burned as fuel.CK
- He grabbed hot coal, his fingers got burned.anzart
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of coal
as a noun
- plural
- coals
as a verb
- third-person singular
- coals
- present participle
- coaling
- past participle
- coaled
- past tense
- coaled