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dental

/ˈdɛn.təl/US/ˈdɛn.təl/

dental adjective: of or concerning the teeth.

Adjective

dental (comparative more dental, superlative most dental)

  1. (relational) Of or concerning the teeth.
    • dental care
    Synonyms:
    toothly, teethly
  2. (relational) Of or concerning dentistry.
  3. Articulated with the tip of the tongue touching the upper front teeth or with the blade of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, so that the tip of the tongue rests near the teeth.
    • dental fricative
  4. (uncommon) Articulated with the tip or blade of the tongue: coronal.

Noun

dental (plural dentals)

  1. Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
    Synonyms:
    prophy
  2. A dental sound.
    • 'Che Normah pronounced the name in the Malay manner, metathetically: Ruperet, the final dental initiated but not exploded.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253

dental meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

dental in Hindi

dental
दांत dānt, दंत्य dantya
dental, pertaining to the teeth
दंत्य dantya

dental in Tamil

தந்த, பல், பல் எலும்பு

dental in Urdu

دندانی

dental in Bengali

dental , থ , দ , ধ , ন , ল and স )
দন্ত্য dontto
More languagesFewer languages
dental in Telugu
దంత్యము dantyamu
dental in Malayalam
പല്ലു സംബന്ധിച്ച
dental in Kannada
ಹಲ್ಲಿನ
dental in Odia
ଦନ୍ତ୍ୟ dantya
dental in Sanskrit
दन्त्य dantya
dental in Assamese
দন্ত্য dontyo
dental in Arabic
أَسْنَانِيّ ʔasnāniyy, سِنِّيّ sinniyy
dental in Vietnamese
âm răng
Kashmiri
دٔنٛدؠ dạnd'

Examples of dental in a sentence

  • The cost of toothpaste is small change compared to the cost of dental work.
  • It is recommended to use an interdental brush, or dental floss, to clean between the teeth.
  • And then there was the Elder Millennial: obsessed with dental hygiene, psychedelics, and dirty talk.

All 40 example sentences with dental

Synonyms of dental

Forms of dental

Adjective
comparativemore dental
superlativemost dental
Noun
pluraldentals

Origin of dental

Borrowed from Middle French dental or Late Latin dentālis, from dēns (“a tooth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Words formed from dental

Phrases with dental

10 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with dental

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about dental

What does dental mean?
Dental means of or concerning the teeth.
What is dental in Hindi?
Dental in Hindi is दांत (dānt), दंत्य (dantya). See Dental meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dental?
Dental can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce dental?
Dental is pronounced /ˈdɛn.təl/ (UK).

Words near dental in the dictionary

  1. dent
  2. Dent Blanche
  3. dent corn
  4. Dent County
  5. dentable
  6. dental
  7. dental alveoli
  8. dental alveolus
  9. dental ape
  10. dental apes
  11. dental arch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dental (page history and authors); दंत्य (Hindi) (page history and authors); dental (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dental (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); দন্ত্য (Bengali) (page history and authors); దంత్యము (Telugu) (page history and authors); dental (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dental (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଦନ୍ତ୍ୟ (Odia) (page history and authors); দন্ত্য (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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