ebony

1. 1.

   of a very dark black

   Synonymsebon

   Similarachromatic

Other forms of ebony

plural

ebonies·

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 ebony

What does ebony mean?

ebony means "a very dark black". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ebony?

ebony has 3 syllables: eb-o-ny. The stress falls on "eb". In IPA it is /ˈɛbəni/.

What is another word for ebony?

Close synonyms include coal black, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black. 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 ebony a common word?

ebony is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.