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say it: DEN-tuhl
dental is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to the teeth". It is pronounced /ˈdɛntəl/ — DEN-tuhl. It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to the teeth
“dental floss”
of or relating to dentistry
“dental student”
a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dental come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.