name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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
Standard Lemma guide
carbon
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: kärʹbən
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General-American: /ˈkɑɹ.bən/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːbən/
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)bən
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 R B AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A place name:
A village in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
Meaning 3
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Van Buren Township, Clay County, Indiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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name
Meaning 4
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city and coal town in Douglas Township, Adams County, Iowa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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name
Meaning 5
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Eastland County, Texas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- All life as we know it has carbon as the backbone of many of its molecules; carbon’s tetravalence gives it special importance in biochemical molecular bonds.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
A sheet of carbon paper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal
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noun
Meaning 10
A carbon copy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal
Examples
- Please provide me with a carbon of your form.
- Press firmly: you are making a carbon.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 12
Soot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Every morning she cleaned the carbon from the lamp chimneys.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 13
Soot.
Especially, hardened soot as a caked-on deposit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- When you overhaul an engine, you need to remove the carbon from around the valve seats. The carbon buildup can be extensive.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
Qualifier: climate change
Topics: biology, ecology, natural-sciences
Examples
- carbon neutral
- carbon capture
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 15
A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 16
A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 17
Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
Examples
- carbon bike frame
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 18
To send a carbon copy of an email message to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, transitive, uncommon
Examples
- When I send it, I’ll carbon Julia so she’s aware.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cc, copy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 19
a copy made with carbon paper
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: carbon copy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: copy
noun
Meaning 20
an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: C, atomic number 6
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chemical element, element
Narrower terms: fullerene, radiocarbon, carbon 14, char, charcoal, wood coal, carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock, activated carbon, activated charcoal, graphite, black lead, plumbago, diamond, adamant
noun
Meaning 21
a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: carbon paper
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: paper
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh3- (“to burn”). By surface analysis, carbo- + -on.
Across languages
Translations
249 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: koolstof — chemical element
- Albanian: karboni — chemical element
- Albanian: karbon — chemical element
- Arabic: كَرْبُون (karbūn) — chemical element
- Armenian: ածխածին (acxacin) — chemical element
- Asturian: carbonu — chemical element
- Azerbaijani: مولدالفحم (muvallidulfahm) — chemical element
- Azerbaijani: بموادالفحم (bimeyvadulfahm) — chemical element
- Azerbaijani: karbon — chemical element
- Azerbaijani: uqlerod — chemical element
- Banyumasan: karbon — chemical element
- Basque: karbonoa — chemical element
- Belarusian: вугляро́д (vuhljaród) — chemical element
- Belarusian: вуглец (vuhlec) — chemical element
- Bengali: অঙ্গার (oṅgar) — chemical element
- Breton: karbon — chemical element
- Bulgarian: въглеро́д (vǎgleród) — chemical element
- Burmese: ကာဗွန် (kabwan) — chemical element
- Catalan: carboni — chemical element
- Chinese Cantonese: 碳 (taan3) — chemical element
- Eastern Min Chinese: 碳 (táng) — chemical element
- Hakka Chinese: 碳 (than) — chemical element
- Chinese: 炭素 (thoàn-sò͘) — chemical element
- Chinese: 碳 (zh-min-nan) — chemical element
- Chinese Mandarin: 碳 (tàn) — chemical element
- Wu Chinese: 碳 — chemical element
- Cornish: karbon — chemical element
- Corsican: carboniu — chemical element
- Czech: uhlík — chemical element
- Danish: carbon — chemical element
- Danish: karbon — chemical element
- Danish: kulstof — chemical element
- Dutch: koolstof — chemical element
- Erzya: седь (seď) — chemical element
- Esperanto: karbono — chemical element
- Estonian: süsinik — chemical element
- Farefare: bugsãane-kugre — chemical element
- Farefare: bugsãan-kugre — chemical element
- Faroese: kolevni — chemical element
- Finnish: hiili — chemical element
- French: carbone — chemical element
- West-Frisian: koalstof — chemical element
- Friulian: carboni — chemical element
- Galician: carbono — chemical element
- Georgian: ნახშირბადი (naxširbadi) — chemical element
- German: Kohlenstoff — chemical element
- German: Kohlenstoff — chemical element
- Central Franconian: Kohlenstoff — chemical element
- Greek: άνθρακας (ánthrakas) — chemical element
- Gujarati: કાર્બન (kārban) — chemical element
- Haitian Creole: kabòn — chemical element
- Hawaiian: kalepona — chemical element
- Hebrew: פַּחְמָן (pakhmán) — chemical element
- Hindi: प्रांगार (prāṅgār) — chemical element
- Hindi: कार्बन (kārban) — chemical element
- Hindi: कारबन (kārban) — chemical element
- Hungarian: szén — chemical element
- Icelandic: kolefni — chemical element
- Ido: karbo — chemical element
- Indonesian: karbon — chemical element
- Indonesian: zat arang — chemical element
- Ingrian: ugleroda — chemical element
- Interlingua: carbon — chemical element
- Inuktitut: ᐸᐅᖅ (paoq) — chemical element
- Irish: carbón — chemical element
- Italian: carbonio — chemical element
- Japanese: 炭素 (tanso) — chemical element
- Javanese: karbon — chemical element
- Kannada: ಇಂಗಾಲ (iṅgāla) — chemical element
- Kashubian: wãdźel — chemical element
- Kazakh: көміртек (kömırtek) — chemical element
- Khmer: ការបោន (kaabaon) — chemical element
- Khmer: កាបូន (kaaboun) — chemical element
- Korean: 탄소 (tanso) — chemical element
- Northern Kurdish: karbon — chemical element
- Kyrgyz: көмүртек (kömürtek) — chemical element
- Kyrgyz: углерод (uglerod) — chemical element
- Lao: ຄາບອນ (khā bǭn) — chemical element
- Latin: carbonium — chemical element
- Latvian: ogleklis — chemical element
- Limburgish: koolstof — chemical element
- Lingala: kaboni — chemical element
- Lithuanian: anglis — chemical element
- Lombard: carbòni — chemical element
- Low German: kohlenstoff — chemical element
- Luhya: ekaboni — chemical element
- Luxembourgish: Kuelestoff — chemical element
- Macedonian: јаглерод (jaglerod) — chemical element
- Malay: karbon — chemical element
- Malayalam: കാർബണ് (kāṟbaṇ) — chemical element
- Malayalam: ഇംഗാലം (iṅgālaṁ) — chemical element
- Maltese: karbonju — chemical element
- Manx: carboan — chemical element
- Māori: waro — chemical element
- Marathi: कार्बन (kārban) — chemical element
- Mongolian: нүүрстөрөгч (nüürstörögč) — chemical element
- Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠭᠦᠷᠡᠰᠦᠲᠥᠷᠥᠭᠴᠢ (negüresütörögči) — chemical element
- Nahuatl: tecolli — chemical element
- Navajo: káábin — chemical element
- Norwegian: karbon — chemical element
- Norwegian Nynorsk: karbon — chemical element
- Occitan: carbòni — chemical element
- Odia: ଅଙ୍ଗାରକ (aṅgāraka) — chemical element
- Pashto: کاربون (kārbón) — chemical element
- Persian: کربن (karbon) — chemical element
- Polish: węgiel — chemical element
- Portuguese: carbono — chemical element
- Punjabi: ਕਾਰਬਨ (kārban) — chemical element
- Quechua: k'illimsayaq — chemical element
- Romanian: carbon — chemical element
- Russian: углеро́д (ugleród) — chemical element
- Samogitian: onglis — chemical element
- Sanskrit: कौकिलीय (kaukilīya) — chemical element
- Sanskrit: प्राङ्गार (prāṅgāra) — chemical element
- Scottish Gaelic: gualan — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: угљеник — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: у̀гљӣк — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: ка̀рбо̄н — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: ugljenik — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: ùgljīk — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: kàrbōn — chemical element
- Sicilian: carbòniu — chemical element
- Slovak: uhlík — chemical element
- Slovene: ogljik — chemical element
- Upper Sorbian: wuhlik — chemical element
- Spanish: carbono — chemical element
- Sundanese: karbon — chemical element
- Swahili: kaboni — chemical element
- Swedish: kol — chemical element
- Tagalog: karbono — chemical element
- Tajik: карбон (karbon) — chemical element
- Tajik: углерод (uglerod) — chemical element
- Tamil: கரிமம் (karimam) — chemical element
- Tamil: கார்பன் (kārpaṉ) — chemical element
- Telugu: కార్బన్ (kārban) — chemical element
- Thai: คาร์บอน (kaa-bɔ̂n) — chemical element
- Tibetan: སོལ་རྫས (sol rdzas) — chemical element
- Turkish: karbon — chemical element
- Turkmen: uglerod — chemical element
- Ukrainian: вугле́ць (vuhlécʹ) — chemical element
- Uyghur: كاربون (karbon) — chemical element
- Uzbek: uglerod — chemical element
- Venetan: carbonio — chemical element
- Vietnamese: cacbon — chemical element
- Volapük: karbin — chemical element
- Walloon: carbone — chemical element
- Welsh: carbon — chemical element
- Welsh: ulwyn — chemical element
- Yiddish: קוילנשטאָף (koylnshtof) — chemical element
- Bulgarian: въглерод (vǎglerod) — atom of this element
- Finnish: hiili — atom of this element
- Finnish: hiiliatomi — atom of this element
- Swedish: kolatom — atom of this element
- Bulgarian: инди́го (indígo) — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Czech: kopírák — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Danish: kalkerpapir — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Danish: karbonpapir — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Finnish: kalkkeripaperi — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Finnish: kalkkeeripaperi — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- German: Kohlepapier — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Greek: καρμπόν (karmpón) — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Hungarian: indigó — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Hungarian: másolópapír — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Icelandic: kolefnis pappír — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Irish: páipéar carbóin — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Norwegian: blåpapir — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Portuguese: papel-carbono — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Russian: копи́рка (kopírka) — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Slovak: kopirák — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Spanish: papel carbón — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Tamil: கரிமக் காகிதம் (karimak kākitam) — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Telugu: అచ్చు కాగితం (accu kāgitaṁ) — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Vietnamese: giấy than — informal: a sheet of carbon paper
- Bulgarian: ко́пие (kópie) — informal: carbon copy
- Dutch: doorslag — informal: carbon copy
- Finnish: kopsu — informal: carbon copy
- French: carbone — informal: carbon copy
- German: Durchschlag — informal: carbon copy
- Greek: κοινοποίηση (koinopoíisi) — informal: carbon copy
- Hungarian: indigómásolat — informal: carbon copy
- Hungarian: másolat — informal: carbon copy
- Japanese: カーボンコピー (kābon-kopii) — informal: carbon copy
- Korean: 카아본지 (kaabonji) — informal: carbon copy
- Norwegian: blåkopi — informal: carbon copy
- Polish: kalka — informal: carbon copy
- Portuguese: carbono — informal: carbon copy
- Romanian: copie la indigo — informal: carbon copy
- Swedish: genomslagskopia — informal: carbon copy
- Breton: glaou — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Bulgarian: въ́глища (vǎ́glišta) — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Catalan: carbó — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Chinese Mandarin: 煤 (méi) — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Czech: uhlí — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Danish: kul — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Danish: koks — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Danish: trækul — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Danish: stenkul — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Dutch: kool — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Estonian: süsi — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Finnish: hiili — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- French: charbon — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- German: Kohle — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Greek: κάρβουνο (kárvouno) — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Hungarian: szén — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Interlingua: carbon — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Japanese: 炭 (sumi) — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Japanese: 石炭 (sekitan) — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Latin: carbo — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Latvian: ogle — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Malay: arang — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Norwegian: kull — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Polish: węgiel — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Portuguese: carvão — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Romanian: cărbune — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Russian: у́голь (úgolʹ) — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Scottish Gaelic: gual — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Serbo-Croatian: угаљ — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Serbo-Croatian: ћу̀мур — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Serbo-Croatian: у̏гаљ — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Serbo-Croatian: ćùmur — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Slovak: uhlie — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Spanish: carbón — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Swedish: kol — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Tamil: கரி (kari) — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Turkish: kömür — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Vietnamese: than — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Vietnamese: than củi — fossil fuel made of impure carbon
- Bulgarian: въглеро́ден диокси́д (vǎgleróden dioksíd) — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Dutch: koolstofdioxide — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Estonian: süsinikdioksiid — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Estonian: süsihappegaas — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Finnish: hiili- — ecology: carbon dioxide
- German: Kohlendioxid — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Greek: διοξείδιο (dioxeídio) — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Norwegian: kulldioksid — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Norwegian: kullsyre — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Polish: dwutlenek węgla — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Portuguese: carbono — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Russian: углеки́слый газ (uglekíslyj gaz) — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Russian: углекислота́ (uglekislotá) — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Russian: двуо́кись углеро́да (dvuókisʹ ugleróda) — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Slovak: uhlík — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Swedish: koldioxid — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Vietnamese: điôxít cacbon — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Vietnamese: cacbon điôxít — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Vietnamese: thán khí — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Vietnamese: anhiđrít cacbonic — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Vietnamese: khí cacbonic — ecology: carbon dioxide
- Finnish: hiili — carbon rod used in an arc lamp
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