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silicate

noun · 2 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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sĭʹlĭkət
/ˈsɪlɪkət/
sĭʹlĭkĭt
/ˈsɪlɪkɪt/
sĭʹlĭkāt
/ˈsɪlɪkeɪt/
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CMU ARPABET: S IH1 L AH0 K AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 2: S IH1 L AH0 K EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

noun

Meaning 1

Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: compound

Narrower terms: aluminium silicate, aluminum silicate, aluminomagnesian silicate, aluminosilicate, bismuth silicate, borophosphosilicate, calcium magnesium silicate, cerous silicate, cyclosilicate, inosilicate, magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate, magnesium silicate, neosilicate, orthosilicate, phosphosilicate, phyllosilicate, pyrosilicate

noun

Meaning 2

a salt or ester derived from silicic acid

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: salt

History

Etymology

From silicic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Across languages

Translations

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

Asturian: silicatu — salt or mineral
Catalan: silicat — salt or mineral
Chinese Mandarin: 硅酸鹽 /硅酸盐 (guīsuānyán) — salt or mineral
Czech: křemičitan — salt or mineral
Czech: silikát — salt or mineral
Dutch: silicaat — salt or mineral
Finnish: silikaatti — salt or mineral
French: silicate — salt or mineral
German: Silikat — salt or mineral
Italian: silicato — salt or mineral
Japanese: 珪酸塩 (keisan'en) — salt or mineral
Kazakh: силикат (silikat) — salt or mineral
Norwegian Bokmål: silikat — salt or mineral
Norwegian Nynorsk: silikat — salt or mineral
Persian: سیلیکات (silikât) — salt or mineral
Polish: krzemian — salt or mineral
Portuguese: silicato — salt or mineral
Romanian: silicat — salt or mineral
Russian: силика́т (silikát) — salt or mineral
Spanish: silicato — salt or mineral
Swedish: silikat — salt or mineral
Telugu: సిలికేటు (silikēṭu) — salt or mineral
Turkish: silikat — salt or mineral

Word forms

Inflections and variants

silicates — plural

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: aluminio-silicate, arsenosilicate, barium copper silicate, bisilicate, borosilicate, calcium silicate, calc silicate gneiss, calc-silicate gneiss, chain silicate, chlorotetrafluorosilicate, disilicate, dodecaoxotetrasilicate, dodecasilicate, fluosilicate, framework silicate, hexasilicate, hydrosilicate, inosilicate, island silicate, metasilicate, molybdosilicate, monosilicate, nanosilicate, nonsilicate, octasilicate, pentasilicate, polysilicate, potassium aluminium silicate, protosilicate, ring silicate, sheet silicate, silicate planet, silicatian, silicatization, tetraoxosilicate, tetrasilicate, titanosilicate, trisilicate, tungstosilicate, unisilicate, vanadosilicate, zincosilicate

Related: silica, silicate board, silicate cotton, silicate paint, silicon, silicone

Spelling and sound

Hyphenation and homophones

Hyphenation: sili·cate

Semantic map

Other relationships

Hypernyms: compound, salt

Hyponyms: aluminium silicate, aluminum silicate, aluminomagnesian silicate, aluminosilicate, bismuth silicate, borophosphosilicate, calcium magnesium silicate, cerous silicate, cyclosilicate, inosilicate, magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate, magnesium silicate, neosilicate, orthosilicate, phosphosilicate, phyllosilicate, pyrosilicate

Sources

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Real reading context

Meaning relationships

Meaning relationships

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