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Clay (Noun)

Meaning 1

United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852).

Classification

Nouns denoting people.

Synonyms

  • Henry Clay
  • The Great Compromiser

Meaning 2

The dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay".

Classification

Nouns denoting body parts.

Synonyms

  • Corpse
  • Stiff
  • Remains
  • Cadaver

Hypernyms

  • Body
  • Dead Body

Hyponyms

  • Cremains

Meaning 3

A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.

Classification

Nouns denoting substances.

Hypernyms

  • Dirt

Hyponyms

  • Terra Alba
  • Porcelain Clay
  • Potter's Earth
  • China Stone
  • Kaoline
  • Kaolin

Meaning 4

Water soaked soil; soft wet earth.

Classification

Nouns denoting substances.

Synonyms

  • Mud

Hypernyms

  • Soil

Hyponyms

  • Mud Pie
  • Slop
  • Bleaching Clay

Meaning 5

United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978).

Classification

Nouns denoting people.

Synonyms

  • Lucius DuBignon Clay
  • Lucius Clay
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