Colloquial Variant guide

aluminium

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Australian, Received-Pronunciation: ăl"yo͝omĭn'ēəm
  • Australian, Received-Pronunciation: ăl"yo͝omĭn'yəm
  • Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.i.əm/
  • Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.jəm/
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  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: ăl"(y)o͞omĭn'ēəm
  • US: ăl"(y)o͞omĭn'yəm
  • US: /ˌæl.(j)uˈmɪn.i.əm/
  • US: /ˌæl.(j)uˈmɪn.jəm/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada: əlo͞om'ĭnəm
  • Canada: /əˈluːmɪnəm/
  • New-Zealand: ăl"(y)əmĭn'yəm
  • New-Zealand: /ˌɛl.(j)ɘˈmɘn.jɘm/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: AH0 L UW1 M IH0 N AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: AE2 L Y UW1 M IH0 N AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A single atom of this element.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Aircraft or other machinery made partially or wholly of aluminium.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, slang, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: aluminum, Al, atomic number 13

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: metallic element, metal

Narrower terms: alum, potassium alum, potash alum, ammonia alum, ammonium alum

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2elut- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin alūmen Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -umder. English -ium English aluminium First used in 1812 as an alternative form of aluminum which was coined in the same year. From Latin alūmen + -ium. * For information on the origins of the two spellings, see the Wikipedia article.

Across languages

Translations

148 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Albanian: alumin — silvery metal
  • Arabic: أَلُومِنْيُوم (ʔalūminyūm) — silvery metal
  • Armenian: ալյումին (alyumin) — silvery metal
  • Assamese: এলুমিনিয়াম (eluminiam) — silvery metal
  • Asturian: aluminiu — silvery metal
  • Azerbaijani: alüminium — silvery metal
  • Basque: aluminioa — silvery metal
  • Belarusian: алюмі́ній (aljumínij) — silvery metal
  • Belarusian: алюмін (alumin) — silvery metal
  • Belarusian: гліняк (hliniak) — silvery metal
  • Bengali: অ্যালুমিনিয়াম (êluminiẏam) — silvery metal
  • Breton: aluminiom — silvery metal
  • Bulgarian: алуми́ний (alumínij) — silvery metal
  • Burmese: အလူမီနီယမ် (a.luminiyam) — silvery metal
  • Catalan: alumini — silvery metal
  • Chinese Cantonese: 鋁 /铝 (leoi5) — silvery metal
  • Hakka Chinese: 鋁 /铝 (lî) — silvery metal
  • Hakka Chinese: 阿路米 (à-lu-mí, â-lu-mí) — silvery metal
  • Chinese: 鋁 /铝 (lū, lī) — silvery metal
  • Chinese: a-lú-mih — silvery metal
  • Chinese: 輕銀 /轻银 (zh-min-nan) — silvery metal
  • Chinese: 輕銀仔 /轻银仔 (khin-gîn-á, kheng-gîn-á) — silvery metal
  • Chinese: 礬素 /矾素 (hoân-sò͘) — silvery metal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鋁 /铝 (lǚ) — silvery metal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鋼種 /钢种 (gāngzhǒng) — silvery metal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鋼精 /钢精 (gāngjīng) — silvery metal
  • Wu Chinese: 鋁 /铝 (6liu) — silvery metal
  • Chuvash: алюмини (aljumini) — silvery metal
  • Cornish: aluminiom — silvery metal
  • Corsican: alluminiu — silvery metal
  • Czech: hliník — silvery metal
  • Danish: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Dutch: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Dzongkha: ཀ་ལ (ka la) — silvery metal
  • Erzya: люм (ľum) — silvery metal
  • Esperanto: aluminio — silvery metal
  • Estonian: alumiinium — silvery metal
  • Farefare: waasrɛ — silvery metal
  • Faroese: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Finnish: alumiini — silvery metal
  • French: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Saterland Frisian: aluminium — silvery metal
  • West-Frisian: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Friulian: alumini — silvery metal
  • Galician: aluminio — silvery metal
  • Georgian: ალუმინი (alumini) — silvery metal
  • German: Aluminium — silvery metal
  • Central Franconian: Allu — silvery metal
  • Greek: αλουμίνιο (aloumínio) — silvery metal
  • Haitian Creole: aliminyòm — silvery metal
  • Hawaiian: ʻAluminuma — silvery metal
  • Hebrew: אלומיניום (alumínyum) — silvery metal
  • Hebrew: חמרן (ḥamran, ḥomran) — silvery metal
  • Hindi: एल्युमिनियम (elyuminiyam) — silvery metal
  • Hindi: स्फटयातु (sphaṭyātu) — silvery metal
  • Hungarian: alumínium — silvery metal
  • Icelandic: ál — silvery metal
  • Ido: aluminio — silvery metal
  • Indonesian: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Interlingua: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Irish: alúmanam — silvery metal
  • Italian: alluminio — silvery metal
  • Japanese: アルミニウム (aruminiumu) — silvery metal
  • Japanese: 軽銀 (keigin) — silvery metal
  • Japanese: 礬素 (banso) — silvery metal
  • Javanese: alumunium — silvery metal
  • Kannada: ಅಲ್ಯೂಮಿನಿಯಮ್ (alyūminiyam) — silvery metal
  • Kapampangan: aluminiu — silvery metal
  • Kashubian: aluminijô — silvery metal
  • Kazakh: алюминий (alüminii) — silvery metal
  • Khmer: អាលុយមីញ៉ូម (ʼaaluymiiñoum) — silvery metal
  • Khmer: ដេរ៉ា (deeraa) — silvery metal
  • Khmer: ញ៉ូម (ñoum) — silvery metal
  • Korean: 알루미늄 (alluminyum) — silvery metal
  • Korean: 경은 (gyeong'eun) — silvery metal
  • Korean: 반소 (banso) — silvery metal
  • Northern Kurdish: bafûn — silvery metal
  • Kyrgyz: алюминий (alyuminiy) — silvery metal
  • Lao: ອາລູມິນຽມ (ʼā lū mi nīam) — silvery metal
  • Latin: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Latvian: alumīnijs — silvery metal
  • Limburgish: alleminium — silvery metal
  • Lingala: aluminyu class 9a/10a — silvery metal
  • Lithuanian: aliuminis — silvery metal
  • Low German: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Luxembourgish: Aluminium — silvery metal
  • Macedonian: алуминиум (aluminium) — silvery metal
  • Malay: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Malayalam: അലുമിനിയം (aluminiyaṁ) — silvery metal
  • Maltese: aluminju — silvery metal
  • Manx: ollymin — silvery metal
  • Māori: konumohe — silvery metal
  • Marathi: ऍल्युमिनियम (ĕlyuminiyam) — silvery metal
  • Central Melanau: maniyem — silvery metal
  • Mongolian: хөнгөн цагаан (xöngön cagaan) — silvery metal
  • Moore: waasdo — silvery metal
  • Navajo: béésh ászólí — silvery metal
  • Nepali: आल्मुनियम (ālmuniyam) — silvery metal
  • Norwegian Bokmål: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Occitan: alumini — silvery metal
  • Pashto: المونيم (almónyám) — silvery metal
  • Persian: آلومینیم (âluminiyom) — silvery metal
  • Plautdietsch: Alumienium — silvery metal
  • Polish: glin — silvery metal
  • Polish: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Portuguese: alumínio — silvery metal
  • Quechua: ch'aqu q'illay — silvery metal
  • Romanian: aluminiu — silvery metal
  • Russian: алюми́ний (aljumínij) — silvery metal
  • Sanskrit: स्फटयातु (sphaṭayātu) — silvery metal
  • Scottish Gaelic: alùmanam — silvery metal
  • Scottish Gaelic: almain — silvery metal
  • Scottish Gaelic: alman — silvery metal
  • Serbo-Croatian: алу̀мӣнијум — silvery metal
  • Serbo-Croatian: алу̀мӣниј — silvery metal
  • Serbo-Croatian: alùmīnijum — silvery metal
  • Serbo-Croatian: alùmīnij — silvery metal
  • Sicilian: alluminiu — silvery metal
  • Slovak: hliník — silvery metal
  • Slovene: aluminij — silvery metal
  • Spanish: aluminio — silvery metal
  • Swahili: alumini — silvery metal
  • Swahili: aluminiamu — silvery metal
  • Swedish: aluminium — silvery metal
  • Tagalog: aluminyo — silvery metal
  • Tajik: алюминий (alyuminiy) — silvery metal
  • Tamil: அலூமீனியம் (alūmīṉiyam) — silvery metal
  • Telugu: అల్యూమినియం (alyūminiyaṁ) — silvery metal
  • Thai: อะลูมิเนียม (à-luu-mí-niiam) — silvery metal
  • Thai: อะลูมินัม (à-luu-mí-nam) — silvery metal
  • Tibetan: ཧ་ཡང་ (ha yang) — silvery metal
  • Turkish: alüminyum — silvery metal
  • Turkmen: alýumin — silvery metal
  • Ukrainian: алюмі́ній (aljumínij) — silvery metal
  • Urdu: ایلومینیم (elyuminiyam) — silvery metal
  • Uyghur: ئاليۇمىن (alyumin) — silvery metal
  • Uzbek: alyuminiy — silvery metal
  • Uzbek: алюминий (alyuminiy) — silvery metal
  • Veps: alüminii — silvery metal
  • Vietnamese: nhôm — silvery metal
  • Volapük: lalumin — silvery metal
  • Welsh: alwminiwm — silvery metal
  • Yiddish: אַלומיניום (aluminyum) — silvery metal
  • Yoruba: alumíníọ̀ — silvery metal
  • Yoruba: bẹ̀lẹ̀jẹ́ — silvery metal
  • Zhuang: lij — silvery metal