pint
See also: Pint
English
Etymology
From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paɪnt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪnt
Noun
pint (plural pints)
- A unit of volume, equivalent to:
- ⅛ of a gallon
- (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint)
- (US) approximately
- 473 millilitres for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
- 551 millilitres for dry goods (a US dry pint).
- (Hungary) 1.696 liters
- (medicine) 12 ounces
- (Britain, metonymically) A pint of milk.
- Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
- (metonymically) A glass of beer, served by the pint.
- 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
- Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.
- 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
Related terms
Translations
unit of volume for liquids
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pint of milk
pint of beer
Danish
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪnt
Audio (file)
Noun
Synonyms
Verb
pint
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of pinnen
- (archaic) plural imperative of pinnen
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