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Definition of 'quaint'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) quaint
having an old-fashioned charm; oddly picturesque:
a quaint old house.

2.  quaint
peculiar or unusual in an interesting or amusing way:
a quaint sense of humor.

3.  quaint
skillfully or cleverly made.

4.  quaint
Obs. wise; skilled.

Etymology: (1175–1225; ME queinte < OF, var. of cointe clever, pleasing &indirdesc; L cognitus known (ptp. of cognōscere; see cognition ))

Definition of 'quaint'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) quaint
strange in an interesting or pleasing way
"quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

2. (adj) quaint
very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance
"the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"

3. (adj) old-time, quaint, olde worlde
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
"houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

Definition of 'quaint'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) quaint
attractive but old-fashioned
a quaint French village; her quaint manners

Definition of 'quaint'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) quaint
prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily

2. (adj) quaint
characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat

3. (adj) quaint
curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression

Translation of 'quaint'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: pleasantly odd or strange, especially because of being old-fashioned quaint customs.
Afrikaans: ouwêrelds, sonderling	Arabic: جَذّاب لِقِدَمِه	Bulgarian: отживял
Brazilian: singular	Czech: se starobylým půvabem	German: wunderlich
Danish: løjerlig	Greek: γραφικός, ιδιότυπος	Spanish: raro, singular; pintoresc
Estonian: (vanamoeliselt) veider	Farsi: شگفت انگیز؛ قشنگ	Finnish: vanhanaikainen
French: au charme vieillot	Hebrew: מוּזָר	Hindi: अजीब, अनुठा
Croatian: starinski,čudan	Hungarian: furcsa	Indonesian: aneh
Icelandic: sérkennilegur, skemmtileg	Italian: originale, curioso	Japanese: 風変わりな
Korean: 진기한, 별난	Lithuanian: keistas, savotiškas	Latvian: dīvains; savāds
Malay: aneh tetapi menarik	Dutch: grappig ouderwets	Norwegian: snodig, kuriøs, gammeldag
Polish: osobliwy	Persian: شگفت انگیز؛ قشنگ	Pashto: عجيبه، تماشايى، جلبوونكى
Portuguese: singular	Romanian: neobişnuit	Russian: причудливый
Slovak: starobylý, starodávny	Slovenian: starinski	Serbian: starinski
Swedish: lustig, pittoresk, kuriös	Thai: น่าดึงดูดแบบแปลก ๆ	Turkish: tuhaf ve hoş
Taiwanese: (尤指因過時而顯得)奇特的，古趣盎然的	Ukrainian: привабливий старовиною	Urdu: انوکھا ، قدیم وضع کا
Vietnamese: kỳ quặc	Chinese: 古怪的，离奇有趣的
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