paint
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.
Other meanings
A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
king, queen, or jack.
Synonyms
- pigment
A kind of
- coating
- coloring material
Kinds of paint
- enamel
- finger paint
- oil paint
- spray paint
- water-base paint
Related words
- bepaint
- bodypaint
- depaint
- digipaint
- electropaint
- eyepaint
- facepaint
- fingerpaint
- greasepaint
- impaint
- inpaint
- mispaint
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "pingō" (to paint).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “paint” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.