Usually means: Charming in an old-fashioned way.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. quaint: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quaint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quaint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quaint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quaint: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quaint, quaint: Wordnik
  7. quaint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quaint: Wiktionary
  9. quaint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quaint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quaint: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Quaint, quaint: Dictionary.com
  13. quaint: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quaint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quaint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quaint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quaint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quaint: Rhymezone
  19. quaint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quaint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. quaint: Free Dictionary
  22. quaint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. quaint: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. quaint-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quaint: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quaint: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. quaint: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See quaintly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Of a person: cunning, crafty.
adjective:  (obsolete) Cleverly made; artfully contrived.
adjective:  (now dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual.
adjective:  (obsolete) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.
adjective:  Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.
noun:  (archaic) The vulva.

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