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tintype

/ˈtɪntaɪp/

tintype noun: an early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.

tintype: an early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a...
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Noun

tintype (plural tintypes)

  1. An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
    • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
    • There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; […]1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70

Verb

tintype (third-person singular simple present tintypes, present participle tintyping, simple past and past participle tintyped)

  1. (transitive) To produce a tintype image of.

tintype meaning in Bengali

tintype in Bengali

ফটোগ্রাফের একটি প্রাথমিক, উল্লেখযোগ্যভাবে টেকসই রূপ

Forms of tintype

Noun
pluraltintypes
Verb
third-person singular presenttintypes
present participletintyping
past participletintyped
pasttintyped

Origin of tintype

From tin + type.

Words formed from tintype

Questions about tintype

What does tintype mean?
Tintype means an early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
What is tintype in Bengali?
Tintype in Bengali is ফটোগ্রাফের একটি প্রাথমিক, উল্লেখযোগ্যভাবে টেকসই রূপ. See Tintype meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tintype?
Tintype can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tintype?
Tintype is pronounced /ˈtɪntaɪp/.
What is the plural of tintype?
The plural of tintype is tintypes.

Words near tintype in the dictionary

  1. Tinton Falls
  2. tintos de verano
  3. tints
  4. Tintwistle
  5. tinty
  6. tintype
  7. tintyped
  8. tintyper
  9. tintypers
  10. tintypes
  11. tintyping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tintype (page history and authors); tintype (Bengali 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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