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CINDER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire

Synonyms:

cinder; clinker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("cinder" is a kind of...):

fragment (a piece broken off or cut off of something else)

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 Context examples: 

She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)