1
: a massive hard dark quartz that produces a spark when struck by steel
2
: an implement of flint used in prehistoric cultures
3
a
: a piece of flint
b
: a material used for producing a spark
especially
: an alloy (as of iron and cerium) used in lighters
4
: something resembling flint in hardness
Examples of flint in a Sentence
the flint in a cigarette lighter
Recent Examples on the Web
One grave contained pottery fragments,while another had four flint arrowheads and a flint blade.
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Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
This baseline included devices that were fashioned by modern nonhuman apes and ones that were produced in experiments in which humans crafted flints without prior experience.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 June 2024
There were also archaeological excavations in the 1960s that yielded even more such objects, including flint, shell, rubber, cloth, and wood preserved in the water.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 June 2024
The flint tool could help date the crannog to the Neolithic period, which spanned from 7000 to 1700 B.C., according to the Smithsonian Institution.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
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Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
This baseline included devices that were fashioned by modern nonhuman apes and ones that were produced in experiments in which humans crafted flints without prior experience.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 June 2024
There were also archaeological excavations in the 1960s that yielded even more such objects, including flint, shell, rubber, cloth, and wood preserved in the water.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 June 2024
The flint tool could help date the crannog to the Neolithic period, which spanned from 7000 to 1700 B.C., according to the Smithsonian Institution.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
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flint
noun1
: a hard dark quartz that produces a spark when struck by steel
2
a
: a piece of flint
b
: an alloy (as of iron and cerium) used for producing a spark in lighters
3
: something very hard
a heart of flint
flintily
adverb
ˈflint-ᵊl-ē
flintiness
noun
ˈflint-ē-nəs
flinty
adjective
-ē
Geographical Definition
Flint
geographical name
1
river 265 miles (426 kilometers) long in western Georgia flowing south and southwest into Lake Seminole
2
city in southeast central Michigan north-northwest of Detroit population 102,434
3
or Flintshire
ˈflint-ˌshir 
administrative area of northeastern Wales bordering England and the Irish Sea area 169 square miles (438 square kilometers), population 152,506
-shər
Biographical Definition
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