anthracite coal

1. 1.

   a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat

   Synonymsanthracitehard coal

   Broadercoal

Questions about anthracite coal

What does anthracite coal mean?

anthracite coal means "a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat".

What is another word for anthracite coal?

Close synonyms include anthracite, hard coal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anthracite coal a common word?

anthracite coal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.