Word.ws English Dictionary

quæry

quæry is the archaic spelling of query.

Meaning of query

Noun

query (plural queries)

  1. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
    • The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
  2. A question mark.
    • His Glossary has ‘bouchen, to stop people's mouths,’; but this is followed by a query, to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote.1886, Skeat, Address of the President to the Philological Society, Great Britain
  3. A set of instructions passed to a database.
    • The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

See all 10 meanings of query

Forms of quæry

Noun
pluralquæries
Verb
third-person singular presentquæries
present participlequærying
past participlequæried
pastquæried

Questions about quæry

What is quæry the archaic spelling of?
Quæry is the archaic spelling of query.

Words near quæry in the dictionary

  1. quyrdaq
  2. Quzhou
  3. quære
  4. quæres
  5. quæries
  6. quæry
  7. quæsita
  8. quæstion
  9. quæstionable
  10. quæstionary
  11. quæstioned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quæry (page history and authors); query (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “quæry.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/qu%C3%A6ry. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.