Iron

Quick meaning: Iron is a noun meaning (uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.

Meaning

(uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.

More Meanings

1. Any of several other tools traditionally made of wrought iron, now usually of steel.
2. (usually in the plural, irons) Shackles.
3. (uncountable) A dark shade of the color silver.
4. (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, offensive, shortened from iron hoof, rhyming with poof) A male homosexual.
5. (uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
6. (countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
7. (slang) A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.

Example Sentences

ironman; a will of iron

It's many niggas now totin' iron.

He appeared easygoing, but inside he was pure iron.

the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip

Word Forms

• irons
• ironing
• ironed

Synonyms for iron

Depending on context, synonyms include press, ferrum, flatiron, poof, queer, adamant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chain, fe, robust, chains, metal, steel.

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