Meaning & use
quint
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One of five children born at the same birth; a quintuplet.
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The hospital celebrated the birth of a rare set of quints.
Each of the quints wore a different colored bracelet so their parents could tell them apart.
A note on using this word
An informal short form of 'quintuplet,' almost always used in the plural.
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