quin

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noun

A quintuplet.

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OriginOld French quin ← Latin Iācōbus →
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Meanings

quin1

nounquin (plural quins)

plural quins

  1. informalA quintuplet.

    Synonyms: quint

quin2

nounquin (plural quins)

plural quins

  1. A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.

    Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.

    1973, N. L. Tranter, Population since the industrial revolution, page 104

Quin3

proper nounQuin (countable and uncountable, plural Quins)

plural Quins

  1. countableuncountableA surname.
  2. countableuncountableA village in County Clare, Ireland, south-east of Ennis (Irish grid ref R 4174).

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA quintuplet.

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quint

More synonyms by meaning

nounone of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy

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quintupletquint
Broader
siblingsib
Also see
quintquintuplet

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. LatinIācōbus
  2. Old Frenchquin“monkey”
  3. EnglishQuin

* Irish: variant of Quinn, from Irish Ó Coinn (“descendant of Chief”). * English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French quin (“monkey”). * French: from a short form of Jaquin, pet form of Jacques, from Latin Iācōbus (English Jacob).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with quin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quin.

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