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# quaint

adjective (quainter, quaintest)

«quaint» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

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

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «quaint» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaint/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«quaint» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/quaint.html) on Mova free.