tin foil

1. 1.

   foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead

   Synonymstinfoil

   Broaderfoil
2. 2.

   foil made of aluminum

   Synonymsaluminum foilaluminium foil

   Broaderfoil

Questions about tin foil

What does tin foil mean?

tin foil means "foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for tin foil?

Close synonyms include tinfoil, aluminum foil, aluminium foil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tin foil a common word?

tin foil is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.