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dinos

dinos is the plural of dino.

Meaning of dino

Noun

dino (plural dinos)

  1. (informal) A dinosaur (type of animal).
    • So whereas attempts to single out a dino killer may have failed, for now, they do point to a conspiracy of culprits.2019 February 21, Howard Lee, “The Real Dino Killer: A One–Two Punch”, in Scientific American
  2. (slang) A long-time participant in a multi-user dungeon.

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Noun (1)

dinos (plural dinoi)

  1. An Ancient Greek mixing-bowl or cauldron, without handles or feet.

Noun (2) capitalized: DINOs

DINOs

  1. (plural) plural of DINO

Forms of dinos

pluraldinoi

Origin of dinos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δεῖνος (deînos).

Questions about dinos

What does dinos mean?
Dinos means an Ancient Greek mixing-bowl or cauldron, without handles or feet.
What is dinos the plural of?
Dinos is the plural of dino.
What part of speech is dinos?
Dinos is a noun.
What is the plural of dinos?
The plural of dinos is dinoi.

Words near dinos in the dictionary

  1. dinornithiforms
  2. dinorphin
  3. dinorphins
  4. dinors
  5. Dinorwig
  6. dinos
  7. dinosaur
  8. dinosaur hunter
  9. dinosaur hunters
  10. dinosaur juice
  11. dinosaur kale

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dinos (page history and authors); DINOs (page history and authors); dino (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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