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pint

/paɪnt/

pint noun: 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).

Noun

pint (plural pints)

  1. (Commonwealth, UK) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
    • The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  2. (US) 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
  3. (US) approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
  4. (Hungary) 1.696 liters.
  5. (formerly medicine, now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers) 12 fluid ounces.
    • The prices of the second class are given by the ounce; thus […] for a pint, of 12 ounces;1822, The Monthly Gazette of Health, page 832
    • As a good illustration, this work shows that it is possible to fill 12-ounce pints for carry-out trade. This leads the ice cream manufacturers to feel that a large part of the trouble encountered comes from merchandising.1928, Ice Cream Trade Journal, page 58
  6. (UK, metonymically) A pint of milk.
    • Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
  7. (UK, metonymically) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
    • A couple of pints please, barman.
    • Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films

Proper noun capitalized: Pint

Pint (plural Pints)

  1. A surname from Dutch.

pint meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

pint in Hindi

पिंट

pint in Tamil

பைண்ட், பைந்து, நீர்ம அளவு

pint in Marathi

पिंट

pint in Urdu

a pint
رطل rat̤l
More languagesFewer languages
pint in Bengali
পাইন্ট
pint in Telugu
పింట్
pint in Malayalam
ഒരു ഗ്യാലൻറെ എട്ടിലൊരു ഭാഗം, ബീർ വ്യാപാരി, ബീർ കുടിക്കുന്നവൻ
pint in Kannada
ಪಿಂಟ್
pint in Punjabi
ਪਿੰਟ
pint in Gujarati
પિંટ, પિન્ટ, પીન્ટ
pint in Odia
ପିଣ୍ଟ
pint in Nepali
पिन्ट, पिंट
pint in Tagalog
pitis

Examples of pint in a sentence

  • […] a 12-ounce pint of laudanum every five days, or about 1,000 drops a day.1968, Alethea Hayter, Opium and the Romantic Imagination, Univ of California Press, page 194:
  • ... 12 - ounce pints of beer or ale may be substituted .1973, Ted Kosoy, A Guide for Travellers in Canada:
  • 4 medium scoops coffee ice cream (about 1 pint/12 ounces/340 grams), softened until just melty at the edges2012 June 25, Adam Ried, Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes: 100 Thick and Creamy Shakes You Can Make At Home: 100 Classic and Contemporary...

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Forms of pint

Noun
pluralpints
Proper noun
pluralPints

Plural of pint: pints

Origin of pint

From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb). Doublet of pinto and Pinto.

Borrowed from Dutch Pint, a metonymic occupational surname for an official who controlled measures.

Words formed from pint

Phrases with pint

Words that rhyme with pint

Questions about pint

What does pint mean?
Pint means 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
What is pint in Hindi?
Pint in Hindi is पिंट. See Pint meaning in Hindi.
How do you use pint in a sentence?
[…] a 12-ounce pint of laudanum every five days, or about 1,000 drops a day.
What part of speech is pint?
Pint can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pint?
Pint is pronounced /paɪnt/.
What is the plural of pint?
The plural of pint is pints.

Words near pint in the dictionary

  1. pinstriped
  2. pinstriper
  3. pinstripers
  4. pinstripes
  5. pinstriping
  6. pint
  7. pint glass
  8. pint glasses
  9. pint pot
  10. pint pots
  11. pint-size

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pint (page history and authors); Pint (page history and authors); pint (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pint (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pint (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); رطل (Urdu) (page history and authors); Pint (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pint (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pint (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pint (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pint (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pint (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pint (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pint (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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