slate

noun/sleɪt/

Frequency rank: #5,266 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a flat piece of dark grey rock or a board used for writing on.

Illustration for the English word “slate”

Example sentence

The teacher wrote the homework assignment on the slate for everyone to copy.

Synonyms & related words

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