Definitions for quaint
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Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. quaint(adj)

   strange in an interesting or pleasing way

   "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

2. quaint(adj)

   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. old-time, quaint, olde worlde(adj)

   attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)

   "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. quaint(Noun)

   The vulva.

2. quaint(Adjective)

   Of a person: cunning, crafty.

3. quaint(Adjective)

   Cleverly made; artfully contrived.

4. quaint(Adjective)

   Strange or odd; unusual.

5. quaint(Adjective)

   Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.

6. quaint(Adjective)

   Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.

Origin: From cointe, queinte et al., cointe, from cognitus, past participle of cognosco.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Quaint(adj)

   prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily

2. Quaint(adj)

   characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat

3. Quaint(adj)

   curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Quaint

   kwānt, adj. unusual: odd: whimsical: (obs.) prim, affectedly nice: fine: (Shak.) clever.—adv. Quaint′ly.—n. Quaint′ness. [O. Fr. coint—L. cognitus, known. Some confusion with L. comptus, neat, is probable.]

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of quaint in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of quaint in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of quaint in a Sentence

1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

2. James Joyce:

   Across the page the numbers moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes.

3. Stephen DiMare:

   I think people enjoy visiting St. Augustine because it is quintessentially quaint, it’s European with tight buildings and narrow streets; it sits in a harbor with a coquina fort that looks past the barrier islands toward the open ocean.

4. Andy Carroll:

   This generation sees letters as a very quaint, bygone thing that people used to do, but what they contain is some of the most extraordinary, most powerful sentiments and emotions because everything is more vibrant through the lens of warfare.

5. Northrop Frye:

   Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of quaint, and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

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