Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of five offspring born in a single birth.
- noun A group or combination of five associated by common properties or behavior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A set of five, as of car-springs, etc.
- noun plural Five children born at a birth.
- noun In music, a group of five notes to be performed in the time of three, four, or six. Also
quintole . Compare nonuplet, triplet, etc. - noun A bicycle for five riders; a quintet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A collection or combination of five of a kind.
- noun Five children born in the same labor.
- noun (Mus.) A group of five connected notes; a turn of five notes.
- noun A cycle having five crank shafts and adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a set of five similar things considered as a unit
- noun one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Each thinks that his or her quintuplet is the pick of the litter.
grey’s anatomy recap : eleanor rigby is not an island (season 2, episode 11) | Seattle Metblogs 2005
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There are five “mother” sauces that any chef must master; all others stem from that original quintuplet.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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There are five “mother” sauces that any chef must master; all others stem from that original quintuplet.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it.
The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America Bruce Bennett 2011
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Yahoo has debuted the full quintuplet set of femme fatale posters for The Spirit with an extra special feature.
The Spirit's Sexy Femme Fatales Finally Speak! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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How many countries do you think actually have it all, the whole hellish quintuplet of war, famine, disease, poverty and bad leadership all at the same time?
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How many countries do you think actually have it all, the whole hellish quintuplet of war, famine, disease, poverty and bad leadership all at the same time?
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I heard that Busey is actually the recorded father of quintuplet boys, but he hugged them all so powerfully at their birth that they died.
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There's a reward for his death by the Empty Seven, quintuplet cyborg monks.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Not in the Colbert Report way, but in that Addison wants them to be on the quintuplet case.
grey’s anatomy recap : too much sexual healing? (season 2, episode 10) | Seattle Metblogs 2005
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