FLINT
Dictionary entry overview: What does Flint mean?
• FLINT (noun)
The noun FLINT has 3 senses:
1. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
2. a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
3. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
Familiarity information: FLINT used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FLINT (noun)
Meaning:
A hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("flint" is a kind of...):
silica; silicon dioxide; silicon oxide (a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechartelierite)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flint"):
gunflint (the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon)
firestone (a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire)
flintstone (pebbles of flint used in masonry construction)
Meaning:
A river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Flint River; Flint
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Flint" is a part of...):
Empire State of the South; GA; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Meaning:
A city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Flint" is a part of...):
Great Lakes State; MI; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)
