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  Definition of Clay
  1. the dead body of a human being
  2. United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
  3. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)
  4. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
  5. water soaked soil; soft wet earth
Similar Words: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay, mud

 

Hyponyms: cremains, adobe, argil, china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba, red clay, pipeclay, bentonite, fireclay, Kitty Litter, potter's clay, potter's earth, daub, bleaching clay, bleaching earth, mud pie

 

Substance Meronyms: brick, tile, roofing tile, pottery, clayware

 

Derivational Morphology: mud, mire, muck, muck up

 

Anagrams: acyl, lacy

 

Language Translations:
Albanian: argjilë   Armenian: կավ  
Bulgarian: глина   Chinese: 黏土  
Danish: ler   Dutch: klei  
Esperanto: argilo   Estonian: savi  
Finnish: savi   French: argile  
Georgian: თიხა   German: Lehm  
Greek: άργιλος   Hebrew: ש״ע  
Hungarian: agyag   Icelandic: leir  
Italian: argilla   Japanese: 粘土  
Korean: 찰흙   Latin: argilla  
Latvian: māls   Lithuanian: dumblas  
Polish: glina   Portuguese: argila  
Romanian: argilă   Russian: глина  
Slovene: glina   Spanish: arcilla  
Swedish: lera   Turkish: kil  
Vietnamese: đất sét  
 
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