Usually means: Hard, high-carbon, shiny coal.
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  1. anthracite: Merriam-Webster
  2. anthracite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anthracite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anthracite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anthracite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anthracite, anthracite: Wordnik
  7. anthracite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anthracite: Wiktionary
  9. anthracite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anthracite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anthracite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anthracite: Dictionary.com
  13. anthracite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Anthracite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Anthracite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. anthracite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. anthracite: Rhymezone
  18. Anthracite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. anthracite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. anthracite: FreeDictionary.org
  21. anthracite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. anthracite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. anthracite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. anthracite: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anthracite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthracite: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.
noun:  A dark grey color.

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