Plural of flint
regular plural
The plural of flint is flints.
Forms of flint
| Singular | flint /flɪnt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | flints |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Flints in a sentence
- They include red flints and semiflints, red dents, purple, mixed yellow and white, and variegated colors.2005, James C McCann, Maize and Grace, page 84. From the entry semiflint
- The calory- temperature curve for the flints and semiflints resembled one another very closely.1927, Bulletin - Volumes 36-48, page 266. From the entry semiflint
- These include enamels, flints, tints, leatherettes, and many others.1991, “Paperboard”, in F. A. Paine, editor, The Packaging User’s Handbook, Glasgow: Blackie Academic & Professional, Chapman & Hall…. From the entry leatherette
- Their flints were beautifully fashioned in a distinctive style.1925, Floyd Lavern Darrow, Through Science to God, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, pages 136-137. From the entry enlightened
- Language, albeit an abstraction, is yet a more subtle and pervasive criterion of individuality than the culture-group formed by comparing flints and potsherds or the "races" of the skull-measurer.1926, V. Gordon Childe, chapter 1, in The Aryans, page 4. From the entry skull-measurer
Meaning of flint
- noun A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
- noun A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- noun A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
Questions about the plural of flint
- What is the plural of flint?
- The plural of flint is flints.
- Is flint countable?
- Flint is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flint (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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