Meaning & use
quoth
An old-fashioned or literary way of saying 'said,' used before or after a direct quotation.
See it in a sentence
'Nevermore,' quoth the raven, as the narrator sat alone in his study.
'I shall return,' quoth the knight before riding off into the forest.
A note on using this word
Quoth is archaic and survives mainly in poetry, literary quotation, or deliberately old-fashioned or humorous writing; it is not used in ordinary modern speech.
Words with a similar meaning
said
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