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say it: uhb-SID-ee-uhn
obsidian is a noun meaning "acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces". It is pronounced /əbˈsɪdiən/ — uhb-SID-ee-uhn. It carries one recorded sense.
acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for obsidian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.