clay

About 20.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
2. noun An earth material with ductile qualities.
3. noun A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.

   The French Open is played on clay.

4. noun The material of the human body.

   From clay we are made.

5. noun A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
6. noun A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
7. noun A clay pigeon.

   We went shooting clays at the weekend.

8. noun Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.

   Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.

Similar words

cadaver corpse remains stiff mud ceramic sand terracotta earthenware ceramics

Often followed by

and is minerals or in was to of with

Word family

Clay Henry Clay Lucius Du Bignon Clay clayey clayish claylike clays