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DictionaryquintChild from a multiple birth
noun

quint

KWINT/kwɪnt/

A group of five related units.

The five newborn siblings form a quint in adjacent bassinets.

Five newborn quintuplet siblings lie in five adjacent bassinets, with the nearest baby gently emphasized to illustrate one baby belonging to the set of five.
Etymology
quintEnglishone of five children born at one birth

Quint shortens quintuplet, naming one child from a set of five born together. This use originally referred to the Dionne quintuplets.

In context

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being the parent of a quint
The Good and the Bad of Being a Quint

More examples

  • The five dancers perform as a quint.
  • We divide the twenty players into four quints.
  • Each quint contains five matching pieces.

Forms

quint · quints

Similar words

quintet
Usually names five performers or music written for them.
set
Emphasizes things belonging together, without specifying a fixed number.