briquette

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US/bɹɪˈkɛt/

noun

A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel.

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Meanings

nounbriquette (plural briquettes)

plural briquettes · alternative briquet

  1. A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel.

    […] an eggette or briquette manufacturing contract, where, by the compression of tar with these fine particles of culm, there are made pieces of coal about the size of an egg […]

    1913, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6358, page 2724
  2. A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
  3. A molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.
verbbriquette (third-person singular simple present briquettes, present participle briquetting, simple past and past participle briquetted)

present singular third person briquettes · participle present briquetting · participle past briquetted · past briquetted · alternative briquet

  1. transitiveTo form (coal, etc.) into small bricks.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel

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briquet
Broader
block
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briquet

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchbriquette
  2. Englishbriquette

From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).

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Translations

Czech briketa
  • briketasmall brick
Danish briket
  • briketsmall brick
Dutch briket
  • briketsmall brick
Finnish briketti
  • brikettismall brick
French briquette
  • briquettesmall brick
German Brikett
  • Brikettsmall brick
Hungarian brikett
  • brikettsmall brick
Polish brykiet
  • brykietsmall brick
Portuguese briquete
  • briquetesmall brick
Russian брике́т
  • брике́т (brikét)small brick
Swedish brikett
  • brikettsmall brick
Turkish briket
  • briketsmall brick

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with briquette

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Cite this entry
APA

briquette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/briquette

MLA

“briquette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/briquette. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “briquette,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/briquette.

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