Meanings
plural sodiums
- uncountableusuallychemistryThe chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.990. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature.
- uncountableusuallychemistryAn atom of this element.
- attributiveuncountableusuallyEmploying sodium.
From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Arabicأَسْوَد (ʔaswad)
- Ancient Greekμελαγχολία (melankholía)calq.?
- Arabicسَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ)
- Arabicأَسْوَد (ʔaswad)
- Arabicسُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʔ)
- Italiansoda
- Englishsoda
- Englishsodium
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda + -ium.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans natrium
- natriumreactive metal
Arabic صُودِيُوم
- صُودِيُوم (ṣūdiyūm)reactive metal
Basque sodioa
- sodioareactive metal
Bengali সোডিয়াম
- সোডিয়াম (śōḍiẏam)reactive metal
Bulgarian на́трий
- на́трий (nátrij)reactive metal
Catalan sodi
- sodireactive metal
Chinese Mandarin 鈉 /钠
- 鈉 /钠 (nà)reactive metal
Czech sodík
- sodíkreactive metal
Danish natrium
- natriumreactive metal
Dutch natrium
- natriumreactive metal
Esperanto natrio
- natrioreactive metal
Estonian naatrium
- naatriumreactive metal
Finnish natrium
- natriumreactive metal
French sodium
- sodiumreactive metal
German Natrium
- Natriumreactive metal
Greek νάτριο
- νάτριο (nátrio)reactive metal
Hawaiian sodiuma
- sodiumareactive metal
Hebrew נַתְרָן
- נַתְרָן (natrán)reactive metal
Hindi क्षारातु, सोडियम
- क्षारातु (kṣārātu)reactive metal
- सोडियम (soḍiyam)reactive metal
Hungarian nátrium
- nátriumreactive metal
Icelandic natrín, natríum
- natrínreactive metal
- natríumreactive metal
Indonesian natrium
- natriumreactive metal
Irish sóidiam
- sóidiamreactive metal
Italian sodio
- sodioreactive metal
Japanese ナトリウム
- ナトリウム (natoriumu)reactive metal
Korean 나트륨, 소듐
- 나트륨 (nateuryum)reactive metal
- 소듐 (sodyum)reactive metal
Latin natrium
- natriumreactive metal
Latvian nātrijs
- nātrijsreactive metal
Lithuanian natris
- natrisreactive metal
Malay natrium
- natriumreactive metal
Māori konutai
- konutaireactive metal
Norwegian Bokmål natrium
- natriumreactive metal
Persian سدیم
- سدیم (sodiyom)reactive metal
Polish sód
- sódreactive metal
Portuguese sódio
- sódioreactive metal
Punjabi ਸੋਡੀਅਮ
- ਸੋਡੀਅਮ (soḍīama)reactive metal
Romanian sodiu, natriu
- sodiureactive metal
- natriureactive metal
Russian на́трий
- на́трий (nátrij)reactive metal
Scottish Gaelic sòidiam
- sòidiamreactive metal
Slovak sodík
- sodíkreactive metal
Spanish sodio
- sodioreactive metal
Swahili natiri, sodiamu
- natirireactive metal
- sodiamureactive metal
Swedish natrium
- natriumreactive metal
Tagalog sodyo
- sodyoreactive metal
Tamil உவர்மம், சோடியம்
- உவர்மம் (uvarmam)reactive metal
- சோடியம் (cōṭiyam)reactive metal
Thai โซเดียม
- โซเดียม (soo-dîiam)reactive metal
Turkish sodyum
- sodyumreactive metal
Ukrainian на́трій
- на́трій (nátrij)reactive metal
Urdu سوڈیم
- سوڈیم (soḍiyam)reactive metal
Vietnamese natri, chất muối
- natrireactive metal
- chất muốireactive metal
Welsh sodiwm
- sodiwmreactive metal
Yiddish נאַטריום
- נאַטריום (natryum)reactive metal
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with sodium
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Cite this entry
sodium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sodium
“sodium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sodium. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sodium,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sodium.
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