Flint

See also: flint

English

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Proper noun

Flint

  1. A placename
    1. A city, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States.
      • 2016 March 15, Sara Ganim, “Congressman: ‘Sickening’ testimony in Flint hearing”, in CNN[1]:
        Each one claimed they were unjustly criticized, while claiming to have had Flint residents in mind.
      • 2024, Too Black, Rasul A. Mowatt, “Conclusion”, in Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:
        Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action?
    2. An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas, United States.
    3. A town and community with a town council in Flintshire, Wales, by the estuary of the River Dee (OS grid ref SJ2472). [1]
  2. A surname.

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English flint.

Proper noun

Flint

  1. a male given name from English

German

Etymology

From Middle Low German vlint.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɪnt/
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Noun

Flint m (strong, genitive Flintes or Flints, plural Flinte)

  1. (infrequent) flint, flintstone
    Synonym: (the normal word) Feuerstein

Declension

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German Flinte and Plautdietsch Flint.

Noun

Flint f (plural Flinde)

  1. gun

Plautdietsch

Noun

Flint f (plural Flinte)

  1. gun
  2. musket
  3. rifle