pint

See also Pint

English

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• IPA: /paɪnt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnt

Noun

pint (plural pints)

1. A unit of volume, equivalent to ⅛ of a gallon or
   • in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint) and
   • in the United States approximately
     • 473 millilitres for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
     • 551 millilitres for dry goods (a US dry pint).
   • hungarian pint 1,696 liter
2. (UK) A pint of milk.

   Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman

3. (euphemistic) 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.

Translations

unit of volume for liquids

Chinese: 品脱 pǐntuō Czech: pinta (cs) f. French: chopine (fr) f. NOTE: pinte is false friend which really means quart German: Pint (de) n.

Greek: χοεύς (el) m., πίντα (el) f., ⅛ του γαλονιού (el) n. Irish: pionta (ga) m. Italian: pinta (it) f. Macedonian: пинта (mk) (pínta) f. Russian: пинта (ru) (pínta) f.

pint of milk

French: chopine de lait f.

Italian: pinta di latte f.

pint of beer

French: demi m. (this is half a litre, which is approximately a pint) Greek: μισόλιτρο (el) n. (½ of a litre)

Irish: pionta (ga) m. Macedonian: кригла (mk) (krígla) f., пинта (mk) (pínta) f.

Related terms

• half-pint
• imperial pint
• pinta
• pint glass
• pint pot
• pint-size, pint-sized
• US pint
• you can't fit a quart into a pint pot

See also

• gallon
• litre
• quart

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Danish

Verb

pint

1. past participle of pine

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪnt

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Noun

pint c. (plural pinten, diminutive pintje)

1. (Southern) A glass of beer (usually 25 cl, not an imperial pint).

Synonyms

• pils

Verb

pint

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of pinnen.
2. plural imperative of pinnen.

Anagrams

• nipt