Meanings
cobalt1
plural cobalts
- uncountableusuallyA chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
- uncountableusuallyCobalt blue.
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And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks.
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Cobalt2
- A place in the United States:
- A community in the town of East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
- A village in Madison County, Missouri.
- A town in Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle High Germankobe
- Middle High Germanhold
- Middle High German*holt
- GermanKobold
- GermanKobalt
- Englishcobalt
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.
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans kobalt
- kobaltchemical element
Arabic كُوبَلْت m or كُوبَالْت
- كُوبَلْت m or كُوبَالْت (kūbalt)chemical element
Basque kobaltoa
- kobaltoachemical element
Bulgarian коба́лт
- коба́лт (kobált)chemical element
Catalan cobalt
- cobaltchemical element
Chinese Mandarin 鈷 /钴
- 鈷 /钴 (gǔ)chemical element
Czech kobalt
- kobaltchemical element
Danish kobolt
- koboltchemical element
Dutch kobalt
- kobaltchemical element
Esperanto kobalto
- kobaltochemical element
Estonian koobalt
- koobaltchemical element
Finnish koboltti
- kobolttichemical element
French cobalt
- cobaltchemical element
German Kobalt
- Kobaltchemical element
Greek κοβάλτιο
- κοβάλτιο (kováltio)chemical element
Hebrew קובלט
- קובלט (qóbalt)chemical element
Hindi केत्वातु
- केत्वातु (ketvātu)chemical element
Hungarian kobalt
- kobaltchemical element
Icelandic kóbalt
- kóbaltchemical element
Irish cóbalt
- cóbaltchemical element
Italian cobalto
- cobaltochemical element
Japanese コバルト
- コバルト (kobaruto)chemical element
Korean 코발트
- 코발트 (kobalteu)chemical element
Latvian kobalts
- kobaltschemical element
Lithuanian kobaltas
- kobaltaschemical element
Malay kobalt
- kobaltchemical element
Māori koporata
- koporatachemical element
Norwegian Bokmål kobolt
- koboltchemical element
Persian کبالت
- کبالت (kobâlt)chemical element
Polish kobalt
- kobaltchemical element
Portuguese cobalto
- cobaltochemical element
Punjabi ਕੋਬਾਲਟ
- ਕੋਬਾਲਟ (kobālaṭ)chemical element
Romanian cobalt
- cobaltchemical element
Russian ко́бальт
- ко́бальт (kóbalʹt)chemical element
Scottish Gaelic còbalt
- còbaltchemical element
Slovak kobalt
- kobaltchemical element
Spanish cobalto
- cobaltochemical element
Swahili kobalti
- kobaltichemical element
Swedish kobolt
- koboltchemical element
Tagalog kobalto
- kobaltochemical element
Tamil மென்வெள்ளி, கோபால்ட்
- மென்வெள்ளி (meṉveḷḷi)chemical element
- கோபால்ட் (kōpālṭ)chemical element
Thai โคบอลต์
- โคบอลต์ (koo-bɔ́l)chemical element
Turkish kobalt
- kobaltchemical element
Ukrainian ко́бальт
- ко́бальт (kóbalʹt)chemical element
Vietnamese coban
- cobanchemical element
Welsh cobalt
- cobaltchemical element
Yiddish קאָבאַלט
- קאָבאַלט (kobalt)chemical element
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Cite this entry
cobalt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cobalt
“cobalt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cobalt. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cobalt,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cobalt.
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