Usually means: Ancient, combustible rock, energy source.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word coal:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. coal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. coal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coal, coal: Wordnik
  7. coal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Coal, coal: Wiktionary
  9. coal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. coal: Dictionary.com
  13. coal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. coal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Coal (Kathy Mattea album), Coal (Leprous album), Coal (TV series), Coal (book), Coal (disambiguation), Coal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Coal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. coal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. coal: Rhymezone
  19. coal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. coal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Coal: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. coal: Free Dictionary
  23. coal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. coal: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. coal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. coal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coal: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. COAL: Acronym Finder
  5. coal: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coal: Easton Bible
  2. Coal: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coal: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coal, coal, coal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. coal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. coal: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Coal: Glossary of Mining Terms
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See coaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
noun:  (countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
noun:  (countable) A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
noun:  (countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
noun:  charcoal.
noun:  (Internet slang, 4chan slang) Content of low quality.
noun:  (military slang, World War I– World War II) Bombs emitting black smoke on impact.
verb:  (intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).
verb:  (transitive) To supply with coal.
verb:  (intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.
verb:  (transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.
verb:  (transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
adjective:  (Internet slang, soyjak.party slang, 4chan slang) Failing to be humorous or of extremely poor quality.
adjective:  Black like coal; coal-black.
verb:  (Internet slang, 4chan slang) To post low-quality content online.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri, United States, named after early settler Stephen Coale.
noun:  An unincorporated community and coal town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  Four townships in the United States, in Missouri, Ohio (2), and Pennsylvania, listed under Coal Township.

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