cobalt

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈkəʊ.bɒlt/
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/ˈkəʊ.bɒlt/ · /ˈkəʊ.bɔːlt/ · /ˈkoʊ.bɔlt/ (US) · /ˈkoʊ.bɑlt/

Definition of cobalt

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
  2. (uncountable, usually)Cobalt blue.
    “And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks.”

name

  1. A village in Connecticut.
  2. A town in Ontario.
  3. An unincorporated community in Idaho.

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Etymology

From German Kobalt, formerly also Kobald, ‑olt, ‑old, ‑elt, ‑el, apparently the same word as Kobold (“goblin”), from Middle High German, which became also a Harz Mountains silver miners’ term for rock laced with arsenic and sulfur, so called because it degraded the ore and made the miners ill. Doublet of kobold.

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