Word.ws English Dictionary

oil paintings

oil paintings is the plural of oil painting.

Meaning of oil painting

Noun

oil painting (countable and uncountable, plural oil paintings)

  1. A painting done with oil paints.
  2. (uncountable) The art of painting with oil paints.
  3. (UK, humorous) A physically attractive person.
    • "Very lovely!" he said, staring her straight in the face.
      "You needn't try and be funny!" she said. "If you mean me, I'm no oil-painting, and I know it!"1920, Henry St. John Cooper, “Sunny Ducrow”, in Putnam's, page 117

Questions about oil paintings

What is oil paintings the plural of?
Oil paintings is the plural of oil painting.

Words near oil paintings in the dictionary

  1. oil olive
  2. oil opera
  3. oil operas
  4. oil paint
  5. oil painting
  6. oil paintings
  7. oil paints
  8. oil palm
  9. oil palms
  10. oil pan
  11. oil pans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oil paintings (page history and authors); oil painting (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oil paintings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oil_paintings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.