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stained glass

stained glass noun: glass that has been coloured, either by painting or by fusing pigments into its structure.

stained glass: glass that has been coloured, either by painting or by fusing pigments into its structure
Image: Stained glass: Alfred Handel, d. 1946, photo: Toby, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

stained glass (usually uncountable, plural stained glasses)

  1. (usually) Glass that has been coloured, either by painting or by fusing pigments into its structure.
  2. (usually) The use of such glass to construct decorative windows, especially in churches.

stained glass meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Persian and Thai

stained glass in Tamil

வண்ணக் கண்ணாடி

stained glass in Arabic

coloured glass
زُجَاج مُعَشَّق zujāj muʕaššaq

stained glass in Persian

coloured glass
ویترای vitrây

stained glass in Thai

coloured glass
งานกระจกสี ngaan gràjòk sĕe

Forms of stained glass

pluralstained glasses

Questions about stained glass

What does stained glass mean?
Stained glass means glass that has been coloured, either by painting or by fusing pigments into its structure.
What is stained glass in Tamil?
Stained glass in Tamil is வண்ணக் கண்ணாடி. See Stained glass meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stained glass?
Stained glass is a noun.
What is the plural of stained glass?
The plural of stained glass is stained glasses.

Words near stained glass in the dictionary

  1. Staincliffes
  2. Staincross
  3. Staindrop
  4. staine
  5. stained
  6. stained glass
  7. stained glasses
  8. stainedglass
  9. stainedness
  10. stainer
  11. stainers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stained glass (page history and authors); stained glass (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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