a light-coloured coarse-grained acid plutonic igneous rock consisting of quartz, feldspars, and such ferromagnesian minerals as biotite or hornblende: widely used for building great hardness, endurance, or resolution - another name for a
stone 9
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gran•ite /ˈgrænɪt/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Rocksa coarse-grained stone, used chiefly in roads and in building.
gran•ite
(gran′it),USA pronunciation n.
gra•nit•ic
(grə nit′ik),USA pronunciation adj.
gran′ite•like′, adj.
gra•ni•té (gran′i tā′, grä′ni-; Fr. gra nē tā′),USA pronunciation n. [French Cookery.]
- Rocksa coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- anything compared to this rock in great hardness, firmness, or durability.
- Italian granito grainy. See grain, -ite1
- 1640–50;
gra•ni•té (gran′i tā′, grä′ni-; Fr. gra nē tā′),USA pronunciation n. [French Cookery.]
- Foodice (def. 4).
- French
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'granite' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Bodmin
- Canopus
- Granite City
- Granite State
- Kings Canyon National Park
- Land's End
- Laurentian
- Matopo Hills
- Mount Desert Island
- Stone Mountain
- accessory
- aggregate
- aplite
- batholith
- blast
- chrysoberyl
- granita
- granite paper
- graniteware
- granitite
- granitization
- granitize
- granitoid
- grano-
- granolith
- graphic
- graphic granite
- growan
- hypogene
- obsidian
- pegmatite
- rhyolite
- rift
- rock
- scagliola
- sett
- sial
- silicon
- silk paper
- stone
- tantalite
- Ávila