carbonado

1. 1.

   an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing

   Synonymsblack diamond

   Broaderdiamond
2. 2.

   a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled

   Broadermeat

Other forms of carbonado

plural

carbonadoes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carbonado

What does carbonado mean?

carbonado means "an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carbonado?

carbonado has 4 syllables: car-bo-na-do. The stress falls on "bo".

What is another word for carbonado?

Close synonyms include black diamond. 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 carbonado a common word?

carbonado 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.