OIL PAINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oil paint mean? 

• OIL PAINT (noun)
  The noun OIL PAINT has 1 sense:

1. paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle

  Familiarity information: OIL PAINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OIL PAINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("oil paint" is a kind of...):

paint; pigment (a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oil paint"):

oil; oil color; oil colour (oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist)