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Quint vs Quentin - What's the difference?

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Quint is a related term of quentin.

quint

English

Noun

(wikipedia quint) (en noun)
  • (music) an interval of one fifth
  • (in piquet ) a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
  • (US) a quin or quintuplet
  • (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
  • quinte; In fencing, the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
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    quentin

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 2003 , Quentins , Orion, ISBN 0752851659, page 79:
    • Quentin' Barry had always wished that he had been called Sean or Brian. It was hard to be called ' Quentin at a Christian Brothers school in the 1970s. But that was the name they had wanted, his beautiful mother Sara Barry had wanted, she who had always lived in a dream world far more elegant that the one she really lived in.
  • occasionally used.

    • Related terms

    * (diminutives) Quint * Quintin