kaoline

1. 1.

   a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)

   Synonymschina claychina stonekaolinporcelain clayterra alba

   Broaderclay

Other forms of kaoline

plural

kaolines·

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 kaoline

What does kaoline mean?

kaoline means "a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)".

How many syllables are in kaoline?

kaoline has 2 syllables: kao-line. The stress falls on "kao".

What is another word for kaoline?

Close synonyms include china clay, china stone, kaolin, porcelain clay, terra alba. 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 kaoline a common word?

kaoline is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.