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Plural of paint

regular plural

The plural of paint is paints.

Forms of paint

Singularpaint /peɪnt/
Pluralpaints /peɪnts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Paints in a sentence

  • René went back into the kitchen and put a pot of coffee on, got out his paints and started on a new painting.2007, Jesse Guthrie, Catherine's Addiction, page 116
  • Smaller target paints would also be preferred to those displayed on the existing DFTI.1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973, page 203
  • Turpentine or mineral spirits can be used as a thinner for oil-based paints.From the entry thinner
  • The levels of lead in marine hull paints are still unacceptably high.From the entry unacceptably
  • Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.From the entry drying oil

Meaning of paint

  1. noun A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
  2. noun A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
  3. noun The free-throw lane, construed with the.

Full definition of paint

Questions about the plural of paint

What is the plural of paint?
The plural of paint is paints.
Is paint countable?
Paint is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paint (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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