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paintworks

paintworks is the plural of paintwork.

Meaning of paintwork

Noun

paintwork (countable and uncountable, plural paintworks)

  1. The painted surface of a car, building, etc.
    • The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94

Noun

paintworks (plural paintworks)

  1. A factory that produces paint.
    • Armitage and Gaines between them could only guess and speculate until the shift foreman from the paintworks breached the police cordon surrounding the blaze and confronted Finlay direct. Paint deliveries to their wholesalers were done fortnightly […]2012, Francis Cottam, The Fire Fighter

Forms of paintworks

pluralpaintworks

Questions about paintworks

What does paintworks mean?
Paintworks means a factory that produces paint.
What is paintworks the plural of?
Paintworks is the plural of paintwork.
What part of speech is paintworks?
Paintworks is a noun.
What is the plural of paintworks?
The plural of paintworks is paintworks.

Words near paintworks in the dictionary

  1. paintsticks
  2. Paintsville
  3. painture
  4. paintures
  5. paintwork
  6. paintworks
  7. painty
  8. painy
  9. paiock
  10. paiocke
  11. Paipai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paintworks (page history and authors); paintwork (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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