adj
Meaning 1
Made of coral.
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Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
coral
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɹəl/
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General-American: /ˈkɔɹəl/
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homophone: choral
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Australian: /ˈkɔɹəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Having the orange-pink color of coral.
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Usage: not-comparable
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name
Meaning 3
A census-designated place in McHenry County, Illinois, United States.
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name
Meaning 4
A female given name from English.
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noun
Meaning 5
Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
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Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 6
A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A somewhat yellowish orange-pink color; the color of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
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Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 8
The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their color.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
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Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
Obsolete form of corral.
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Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 11
Obsolete form of corral.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 12
of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color
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noun
Meaning 13
marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
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Broader terms: anthozoan, actinozoan
Narrower terms: gorgonian, gorgonian coral, stony coral, madrepore, madriporian coral
noun
Meaning 14
a variable color averaging a deep pink
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Broader terms: pink
noun
Meaning 15
unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces
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Broader terms: roe, hard roe
noun
Meaning 16
the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: red coral, precious coral
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Broader terms: opaque gem
History
Etymology
From Old French coral (French corail), from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion, “coral”). Probably ultimately of Semitic origin, compare Hebrew גּוֹרָל (goral, “small pebble”), Arabic جَرَل (jaral, “small stone”), originally referring to the red variety found in the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, a common folk etymology, accepted by some earlier scholars, connected the word instead to Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē) (referring to Medusa). Beekes mentions both theories and considers the Semitic one convincing.
From coral.
Across languages
Translations
239 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: коралов (koralov) — made of coral
- Catalan: coral·lí — made of coral
- Chinese Mandarin: 珊瑚製的 /珊瑚制的 (shānhú jì de) — made of coral
- Dutch: koraal- — made of coral
- Esperanto: korala — made of coral
- Finnish: korallinen — made of coral
- French: corallien — made of coral
- Georgian: მარჯნის (marǯnis) — made of coral
- Hindi: मूंगा (mūṅgā) — made of coral
- Hindi: मूँगा (mūṅgā) — made of coral
- Hindi: प्रवाल (pravāl) — made of coral
- Hungarian: korall- — made of coral
- Italian: corallino — made of coral
- Italian: corallina — made of coral
- Japanese: 珊瑚でできた (sango de dekita) — made of coral
- Japanese: 珊瑚製の (sangosei no) — made of coral
- Lithuanian: koralų — made of coral
- Lithuanian: koralinis — made of coral
- Malay: batu karang — made of coral
- Maltese: qrolli — made of coral
- Polish: koralowy — made of coral
- Portuguese: coralino — made of coral
- Russian: кора́лловый (korállovyj) — made of coral
- Spanish: coralino — made of coral
- Spanish: coralífero — made of coral
- Turkish: mercan — made of coral
- Catalan: coral·lí — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Chinese Mandarin: 珊瑚色的 (shānhúsè de) — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Chinese Mandarin: 橘紅色的 /橘红色的 (júhóngsè de) — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Dutch: koraalrood — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Dutch: koraalrode — having the orange-pink color of coral
- French: corail — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Georgian: მარჯნისფერი (marǯnisperi) — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Hungarian: korallszínű — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Japanese: 珊瑚色の (sangoiro no) — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Lithuanian: koralų spalvos — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Malay: batu karang — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Polish: koralowy — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Portuguese: coral — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Portuguese: coralino — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Romanian: corai — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Romanian: coraliu — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Spanish: coral — having the orange-pink color of coral
- Arabic: مَرْجَان (marjān) — species or colony
- Armenian: բուստախութ (bustaxutʻ) — species or colony
- Assamese: পোৱাল (püal) — species or colony
- Basque: koral — species or colony
- Bulgarian: кора́л (korál) — species or colony
- Burmese: သန္တာ (santa) — species or colony
- Catalan: corall — species or colony
- Czech: korál — species or colony
- Danish: koral — species or colony
- Dutch: koraal — species or colony
- Esperanto: koralo — species or colony
- Estonian: korall — species or colony
- Finnish: koralli — species or colony
- French: corail — species or colony
- Galician: coral — species or colony
- Georgian: მარჯანი (marǯani) — species or colony
- German: Koralle — species or colony
- Greek: κοράλλι (korálli) — species or colony
- Ancient Greek: κοράλλιον (korállion) — species or colony
- Hawaiian: koʻa — species or colony
- Hawaiian: ʻākoʻakoʻa — species or colony
- Hebrew: אַלְמוֹג (almóg) — species or colony
- Hindi: मूंगा (mūṅgā) — species or colony
- Hindi: मूँगा (mūṅgā) — species or colony
- Hindi: प्रवाल (pravāl) — species or colony
- Hungarian: korall — species or colony
- Hungarian: virágállat — species or colony
- Indonesian: karang — species or colony
- Japanese: サンゴ — species or colony
- Japanese: 珊瑚 (sango) — species or colony
- Kannada: ಹವಳ (havaḷa) — species or colony
- Kavalan: karat — species or colony
- Korean: 산호 (sanho) — species or colony
- Central Kurdish: مەرجان (mercan) — species or colony
- Latvian: korallis — species or colony
- Lithuanian: koralas — species or colony
- Malay: batu karang — species or colony
- Malayalam: പവിഴം (paviḻaṁ) — species or colony
- Maltese: qroll — species or colony
- Māori: kāoa — species or colony
- Occitan: coralh — species or colony
- Persian: مرجان — species or colony
- Pohnpeian: pahi — species or colony
- Polish: koralowiec — species or colony
- Portuguese: coral — species or colony
- Romanian: coral — species or colony
- Russian: кора́лл (koráll) — species or colony
- Slovene: korála — species or colony
- Spanish: coral — species or colony
- Spanish: coralina — species or colony
- Swahili: matumbawe — species or colony
- Swahili: marijani — species or colony
- Swedish: korall — species or colony
- Tamil: பவழம் (pavaḻam) — species or colony
- Telugu: పగడము (pagaḍamu) — species or colony
- Thai: ปะการัง (bpà-gaa-rang) — species or colony
- Turkish: mercan — species or colony
- Ottoman Turkish: مرجان (mercan) — species or colony
- Urdu: مرجان (marjān) — species or colony
- Vietnamese: san hô — species or colony
- Yiddish: קאָראַל (koral) — species or colony
- Albanian: koral — substance
- Arabic: مَرْجَان (marjān) — substance
- Arabic: مرجان (murgān) — substance
- Armenian: մարջան (marǰan) — substance
- Armenian: բուստ (bust) — substance
- Armenian: կորալ (koral) — substance
- Assamese: পোৱাল (püal) — substance
- Azerbaijani: mərcan — substance
- Bashkir: мәрйен (məryen) — substance
- Belarusian: кара́л (karál) — substance
- Bengali: প্রবাল (probal) — substance
- Breton: koural — substance
- Bulgarian: кора́л (korál) — substance
- Burmese: သန္တာ (santa) — substance
- Catalan: corall — substance
- Chinese Cantonese: 珊瑚 (saan1 wu4) — substance
- Eastern Min Chinese: 珊瑚 (săng-hù, dăng-hù) — substance
- Hakka Chinese: 珊瑚 (sân-fù) — substance
- Chinese: 珊瑚 (soan-ô͘, soan-lô͘, san-ô͘) — substance
- Chinese Mandarin: 珊瑚 (shānhú) — substance
- Wu Chinese: 珊瑚 (1se-wu) — substance
- Czech: korál — substance
- Danish: koral — substance
- Dutch: koraal — substance
- Esperanto: koralo — substance
- Estonian: korall — substance
- Finnish: koralli — substance
- French: corail — substance
- Galician: coral — substance
- Georgian: მარჯანი (marǯani) — substance
- German: Koralle — substance
- Greek: κοράλλι (korálli) — substance
- Ancient Greek: κοράλλιον (korállion) — substance
- Hawaiian: puna — substance
- Hebrew: אַלְמֹג — substance
- Hebrew: אלמוג (almóg) — substance
- Hindi: मूंगा (mūṅgā) — substance
- Hindi: मूँगा (mūṅgā) — substance
- Hindi: प्रवाल (pravāl) — substance
- Hungarian: korall — substance
- Icelandic: kórall — substance
- Indonesian: karang — substance
- Italian: corallo — substance
- Japanese: 珊瑚 (sango) — substance
- Japanese: サンゴ (sango) — substance
- Kalmyk: шур (şur) — substance
- Kannada: ಹವಳ (havaḷa) — substance
- Karakalpak: marjan — substance
- Kazakh: маржан (marjan) — substance
- Khmer: ពិទ្រុម (pitrum) — substance
- Khmer: ផ្កាថ្ម (phkaa thmɑɑ) — substance
- Korean: 산호 (sanho) — substance
- Northern Kurdish: mircan — substance
- Kyrgyz: коралл (korall) — substance
- Kyrgyz: маржан (marjan) — substance
- Lao: ປະກາລັງ (pa kā lang) — substance
- Lao: ປະກາຣັງ (pa kā rang) — substance
- Latin: corallium — substance
- Latvian: korallis — substance
- Lithuanian: koralas — substance
- Macedonian: корал (koral) — substance
- Malagasy: haran-dranomasina — substance
- Malay: batu karang — substance
- Malay: karang — substance
- Malayalam: പവിഴം (paviḻaṁ) — substance
- Māori: kutakuta — substance
- Māori: kāoa — substance
- Mongolian: шүр (šür) — substance
- Navajo: tóchʼil yooʼí — substance
- Nogai: маржан (marjan) — substance
- Norwegian Bokmål: korall — substance
- Norwegian Nynorsk: korall — substance
- Occitan: coralh — substance
- Okinawan: 珊瑚 (sangu) — substance
- Pashto: مرجان (marǰãn) — substance
- Persian: مرجان (marjân) — substance
- Persian: بسد (bosad) — substance
- Polish: koral — substance
- Polish: koralowina — substance
- Portuguese: coral — substance
- Romanian: coral — substance
- Russian: кора́лл (koráll) — substance
- Sanskrit: प्रवाल (pravāla) — substance
- Sanskrit: प्रबाल (prabāla) — substance
- Sanskrit: विद्रुम (vidruma) — substance
- Serbo-Croatian: корал — substance
- Serbo-Croatian: koral — substance
- Sinhalese: කොරල් (koral) — substance
- Slovak: koral — substance
- Slovene: korála — substance
- Spanish: coral — substance
- Spanish: coralina — substance
- Swahili: marijani — substance
- Swedish: korall — substance
- Tagalog: sagay — substance
- Tajik: марҷон (marjon) — substance
- Tamil: பவழம் (pavaḻam) — substance
- Tarifit: tadmant — substance
- Tatar: мәрҗән (märcän) — substance
- Telugu: పగడము (pagaḍamu) — substance
- Thai: ปะการัง (bpà-gaa-rang) — substance
- Tibetan: བྱུ་རུ (byu ru) — substance
- Turkish: mercan — substance
- Ottoman Turkish: مرجان (mercan) — substance
- Turkmen: mercen — substance
- Ukrainian: кора́л (korál) — substance
- Urdu: مرجان (marjān) — substance
- Urdu: مونگا (mūngā) — substance
- Uyghur: مارجان (marjan) — substance
- Uzbek: marjon — substance
- Vietnamese: san hô — substance
- Welsh: cwrel — substance
- Yiddish: קאָראַל (koral) — substance
- Catalan: de color m corall — color
- Catalan: coral·lí — color
- Chinese Mandarin: 珊瑚色 (shānhúsè) — color
- Czech: korálová — color
- Dutch: koraalrood — color
- Estonian: sügavroosa — color
- Galician: coral — color
- Georgian: მარჯნისფერი (marǯnisperi) — color
- German: koralle — color
- Greek: κοραλλί (korallí) — color
- Hungarian: korallszín — color
- Japanese: 珊瑚色 (sangoiro) — color
- Korean: 산호색 (sanhosaek) — color
- Lithuanian: koralų spalva — color
- Malay: batu karang — color
- Occitan: coralh — color
- Portuguese: coral — color
- Romanian: corai — color
- Romanian: coraliu — color
- Russian: кора́лловый (korállovyj) — color
- Spanish: coral — color
- Thai: กัลปังหา (gan-lá-bpang-hǎa) — color
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