cobalt

noun
/ˈkəʊ.bɒlt//ˈkoʊ.bɔlt/US

Etymology

From German Kobalt, formerly also Kobald, ‑olt, ‑old, ‑elt, ‑el, apparently the same word as Kobold (“goblin”), from Middle High German, which became also a Harz Mountains silver miners’ term for rock laced with arsenic and sulfur, so called because it degraded the ore and made the miners ill. Doublet of kobold.

  1. borrowed from Kobalt

Definitions

  1. A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27

    A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

  2. Cobalt blue.

  3. A village in Connecticut.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. A town in Ontario.

    2. An unincorporated community in Idaho.

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