Noun: nylon
| Singular | nylon |
| Plural | nylons |
Sample Sentences
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I tore a hole in my nylons while walking home through the woods.
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1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
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He put on make-up, nylons, panties, a dress.
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What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. [2007, Matthew Weiner, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Don Draper (Jon Hamm):]
Nouns inflected like nylon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Coined by the company DuPont in 1938. According to the company, the name was formed from the random generic syllable nyl- + the common fiber suffix -on (as in rayon and Dacron), said to be ultimately from cotton.
Verbs referencing "nylon"
Dutch Nouns
nylon, Faroese Nouns
nailon, Finnish Nouns
nailon, Romanian Nouns
nailon, Icelandic Nouns
nælon, Irish Nouns
níolón, Portuguese Nouns
náilon, Russian Nouns
нейлон, Hungarian Nouns
nejlon, German Nouns
Nylon.