Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word pint. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word pint, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say pint in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word pint you have here. The definition of the word pint will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofpint, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
(formerly medicine, now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers) 12 fluid ounces.
1822, The Monthly Gazette of Health, page 832:
The prices of the second class are given by the ounce; thus […] for a pint, of 12 ounces;
1928, Ice Cream Trade Journal, page 58:
As a good illustration, this work shows that it is possible to fill 12-ounce pints for carry-out trade. This leads the ice cream manufacturers to feel that a large part of the trouble encountered comes from merchandising.
1968, Alethea Hayter, Opium and the Romantic Imagination, Univ of California Press, page 194:
[…] a 12-ounce pint of laudanum every five days, or about 1,000 drops a day. The story of Coleridge's opium addiction is further confused by his habit of referring to laudanum as a stimulant.
1973, Ted Kosoy, A Guide for Travellers in Canada:
... 12 - ounce pints of beer or ale may be substituted . Visitors under 16 cannot legally bring in tobacco . The liquor allowance does not apply to minors below the age limit prevailing in the province you are entering . Apart from these[…]
1975, American Metric Journal, numbers 3-4, page 36:
Forget quarts and 12-ounce "pints". Given the amounts of Pepsi and 7-up , 3.2 beer and California wine, tequila and sour mash we consume, it won't be long before we learn our capacities in this new language.
2012 June 25, Adam Ried, Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes: 100 Thick and Creamy Shakes You Can Make At Home: 100 Classic and Contemporary Recipes, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
4 medium scoops coffee ice cream (about 1 pint/12 ounces/340 grams), softened until just melty at the edges
Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 167
^ pint in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
Further reading
pint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62