cobalt
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of cobalt
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (uncountable, usually)A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
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noun
- (uncountable, usually)A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
-
(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
- A village in Connecticut.
- A town in Ontario.
- 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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