name
Meaning 1
An island of South Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
granite
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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/ˈɡɹæn.ɪt/
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rare: /ˈɡɹæn.aɪt/
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CMU ARPABET: G R AE1 N AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: G R AE1 N IH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A town in Colorado.
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name
Meaning 3
A town in Oklahoma.
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name
Meaning 4
A census-designated place in Utah.
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name
Meaning 5
An unincorporated community in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States.
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noun
Meaning 6
A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.
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Usage: figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a man of granite
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Broader terms: steadiness, firmness
noun
Meaning 9
plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: batholith, batholite, pluton, plutonic rock
History
Etymology
From French granit (“granite”), from Italian granito (“granite”), from granire (“to granulate”), from grano (“grain”), from Latin grānum (“grain”). Compare granita.
Across languages
Translations
83 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Southern Altai: гранит (granit) — type of rock
- Arabic: صَوَّان (ṣawwān) — type of rock
- Arabic: غْرَانِيت (ḡrānīt) — type of rock
- Arabic: قرانيت (grānīt) — type of rock
- Armenian: գրանիտ (granit) — type of rock
- Azerbaijani: qranit — type of rock
- Basque: granito — type of rock
- Belarusian: грані́т (hranít) — type of rock
- Bulgarian: грани́т (granít) — type of rock
- Burmese: နှမ်းဖတ်ကျောက် (hnam:hpatkyauk) — type of rock
- Catalan: granit — type of rock
- Chinese Mandarin: 花崗石 /花岗石 (huāgāngshí) — type of rock
- Chinese Mandarin: 花崗岩 /花岗岩 (huāgāngyán) — type of rock
- Czech: žula — type of rock
- Danish: granit — type of rock
- Dutch: graniet — type of rock
- Egyptian: U2:T-W7 (mꜣṯ) — type of rock
- Esperanto: granito — type of rock
- Estonian: graniit — type of rock
- Finnish: graniitti — type of rock
- French: granite — type of rock
- French: granit — type of rock
- West-Frisian: granyt — type of rock
- Galician: granito — type of rock
- Galician: pedra de gran — type of rock
- Georgian: გრანიტი (graniṭi) — type of rock
- German: Granit — type of rock
- Greek: γρανίτης (granítis) — type of rock
- Hindi: ग्रेनाइट (grenāiṭ) — type of rock
- Hungarian: gránit — type of rock
- Icelandic: granít — type of rock
- Ido: granito — type of rock
- Indonesian: batu besi — type of rock
- Indonesian: batu kulansing — type of rock
- Indonesian: granit — type of rock
- Ingrian: granitta — type of rock
- Ingrian: harmaakivi — type of rock
- Irish: eibhear — type of rock
- Italian: granito — type of rock
- Japanese: 花崗岩 (kakōgan) — type of rock
- Kazakh: гранит (granit) — type of rock
- Korean: 화강암 (hwagang'am) — type of rock
- Kyrgyz: гранит (granit) — type of rock
- Latvian: granīts — type of rock
- Lithuanian: granitas — type of rock
- Luxembourgish: Granit — type of rock
- Macedonian: гранит (granit) — type of rock
- Malay: granit — type of rock
- Malayalam: കരിങ്കല്ല് (kariṅkallŭ) — type of rock
- Māori: ōnewa — type of rock
- Māori: tokapata — type of rock
- Marathi: ग्रॅनाइट (grĕnāiṭ) — type of rock
- Marathi: कणाश्म (kaṇāśma) — type of rock
- Mongolian: боржин чулуу (boržin čuluu) — type of rock
- Norwegian Bokmål: granitt — type of rock
- Norwegian Nynorsk: granitt — type of rock
- Pannonian Rusyn: ґранїт (granjit) — type of rock
- Persian: گرانیت (gerânit) — type of rock
- Persian: سنگ خارا (sang-e xârâ) — type of rock
- Piedmontese: granì — type of rock
- Polish: granit — type of rock
- Portuguese: granito — type of rock
- Romanian: granit — type of rock
- Romansh: granit — type of rock
- Russian: грани́т (granít) — type of rock
- Serbo-Croatian: granit — type of rock
- Serbo-Croatian: гра̀нӣт — type of rock
- Slovak: granit — type of rock
- Slovak: žula — type of rock
- Slovene: granit — type of rock
- Spanish: granito — type of rock
- Spanish: berroqueña — type of rock
- Swedish: granit — type of rock
- Tagalog: tumbesi — type of rock
- Tagalog: batumbesi — type of rock
- Tajik: хоро (xoro) — type of rock
- Tajik: хоросанг (xorosang) — type of rock
- Turkish: granit — type of rock
- Ukrainian: грані́т (hranít) — type of rock
- Vietnamese: đá hoa cương — type of rock
- Welsh: gwenithfaen — type of rock
- Welsh: ithfaen — type of rock
- Yiddish: גראַניט (granit) — type of rock
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