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quint
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun quint has 2 senses
- quint(n = noun.quantity) 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, little phoebe, pentad, phoebe, quintet, quintuplet, v - the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one; Array is a kind of digit, figure
- quint(n = noun.person) quin, quintuplet - one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy; Array is a kind of sib, sibling
CIDE DICTIONARY
quint, n. [F. quinte, fr. L. quintus, quinta, the fifth, quinque five. See Five.].
- A set or sequence of five, as in piquet. [1913 Webster]
- The interval of a fifth. [1913 Webster]
- one of a set of quintuplets. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
quint, n.
1 a sequence of five cards in the same suit in piquet etc.
2 US a quintuplet.
1 a sequence of five cards in the same suit in piquet etc.
2 US a quintuplet.
Idiom
quint major a quint headed by an ace.
Etymology
F quinte f. L quinta fem. of quintus fifth f. quinque five
ROGET THESAURUS
quint
Five
N five, five, cinque, quint, quincux, six, half-a- dozen, half dozen, seven, eight, nine, three times three, dicker, ten, decade, eleven, twelve, dozen, thirteen, long dozen, baker's dozen, quintuplet, twenty, score, twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen, twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred, forty, two score, fifty, half a hundred, sixty, three score, seventy, three score and ten, eighty, four score, ninety, fourscore and ten, sestiad, hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century, hundredweight, cwt, one hundred and forty-four, gross, thousand, chiliad, millennium, thousand years, grand, myriad, ten thousand, ban, man, ten thousand years, banzai, lac, one hundred thousand, plum, million, thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion, five, quinary, quintuple, fifth, senary, sextuple, sixth, seventh, septuple, octuple, eighth, ninefold, ninth, tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth, eleventh, duodenary, duodenal, twelfth, in one's 'teens, thirteenth, vicesimal, vigesimal, twentieth, twenty-fourth, vicenary, vicennial, centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial, secular, hundredth, thousandth.
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