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# quaint

«quaint» in Mova's school dictionary: **charmingly old-fashioned or odd in a pleasing way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (quainter, quaintest)

### meaning for a pupil

Quaint means charmingly old-fashioned or odd in a pleasing way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaint/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a quaint house, hat or bird is oddly old-fashioned and charming

### examples

- The village had quaint little cottages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaint/#x1)
- The old man wore a quaint hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaint/#x2)
- Limmershin is a quaint little bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaint/#x3)
- We looked at the quaint shop with its wooden sign. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaint/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quaint» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaint/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.