flint

See also: Flint

English

Etymology

From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /flɪnt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪnt
  • Homophones: Flint, Flynt

Noun

flint (countable and uncountable, plural flints)

  1. 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.
    He used flint to make a fire.
  2. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
  3. A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
  4. A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
  5. (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.

Derived terms

Translations
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See also

Verb

flint (third-person singular simple present flints, present participle flinting, simple past and past participle flinted)

  1. (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

Further reading
  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Flint”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “flint”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

French

Noun

flint m (plural flints)

  1. flint glass

Middle English

Noun

flint

  1. Alternative form of flynt

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /flint/

Noun

flint m

  1. (stone) flint

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /flint/
  • Rhymes: -int
  • Syllabification: flint

Noun

flint f

  1. genitive plural of flinta

Swedish

Etymology 1

Clipping of flintskalle.

Noun

flint c

  1. a bald head (or bald portion of the head)
    Vilken flint han har fått!
    My God, he has balded!
Declension
Declension of flint 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative flint flinten flintar flintarna
Genitive flints flintens flintars flintarnas

Etymology 2

Clipping of flintskallig.

Adjective

flint (comparative mer flint, superlative mest flint)

  1. (colloquial) bald
    Synonyms: (colloquial) flintis, flintskallig
Declension
Inflection of flint
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular flint mer flint mest flint
Neuter singular flint mer flint mest flint
Plural flinta mer flinta mest flinta
Masculine plural3 flinte mer flinta mest flinta
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 flinte mer flinte mest flinte
All flinta mer flinta mest flinta
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

References
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