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lints

lints is the plural of lint.

lints is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lint.

Meaning of lint

Noun

lint (usually uncountable, plural lints)

  1. (usually) Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
    • Clean the lint out of the vacuum cleaner's filter.
  2. (usually) A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
  3. (usually) The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
  4. (usually) Raw cotton ready for baling.

See all 6 meanings of lint

Proper noun capitalized: Lints

Lints

  1. (plural) plural of Lint

Questions about lints

What is lints the plural of?
Lints is the plural of lint.
What part of speech is lints?
Lints is a proper noun.

Words near lints in the dictionary

  1. Lintong
  2. lintonite
  3. lintonites
  4. Lintons
  5. lintopride
  6. lints
  7. lintseed
  8. lintseeds
  9. lintstock
  10. lintstocks
  11. Lintugop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lints (page history and authors); Lints (page history and authors); lint (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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