quilt
/ˈkwɪlt/
quilt noun: a bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
Noun
quilt (plural quilts)
- A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
- My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.
- A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
- A quilted skirt worn by women.
- Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.
- Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout. Early on […] she alternated alternated jokes and stanzas, providing a wonderful quilt of her musical and story-telling talents.1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12
Verb
quilt (third-person singular simple present quilts, present participle quilting, simple past and past participle quilted)
- To construct a quilt.
- To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.
- Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in The Poetical...
- Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […]...
- To beat or thrash.
- I am glad, said Mr. Slick, that cussed critter, that schoolmaster, hasn't yet woke up. I'm most afeerd if he had aturned out afore we started, I should have quilted him, for that talk of his last night sticks in my crop considerable hard.1884, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker, page 113
quilt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
quilt in Hindi
- रजाई
quilt in Tamil
- ஒட்டுத்தையல், மெல்லிய மெத்தை
quilt in Marathi
- रजाई, रजई
quilt in Urdu
- quilt
- کمبل kambal
More languagesFewer languages
- quilt in Bengali
- লেপ lep, কাঁথা kãtha
- quilt in Telugu
- బొంత bonta
- quilt in Malayalam
- ചെറുകിടക്ക, ചെറുമെത്ത, കോസടി
- quilt in Kannada
- ಬೊಂತೆ, ಬೊಂದು, ಹಾಸಿಗೆ, ದಟ್ಟ
- quilt in Punjabi
- ਰਜਾਈ
- quilt in Gujarati
- રજાઈ rajāī
- quilt in Assamese
- লেপ lep, কেঁথা kẽtha
- quilt in Nepali
- तन्ना tannā
- quilt in Persian
- لحاف lahâf, دواج davâj
- quilt in Thai
- ผ้านวม pâa-nuuam
- quilt in Vietnamese
- duvet
Examples of quilt in a sentence
- The community pieced together a quilt using a square stitched in each household.
- There are a number of crafters around here who make quilts.
- I used primitive hearts to decorate the quilt.
Forms of quilt
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | quilts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | quilts |
| present participle | quilting |
| past participle | quilted |
| past | quilted |
Origin of quilt
Inherited from Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.
Words formed from quilt
Phrases with quilt
Words that rhyme with quilt
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Questions about quilt
- What does quilt mean?
- Quilt means a bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
- What is quilt in Hindi?
- Quilt in Hindi is रजाई. See Quilt meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is quilt?
- Quilt can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce quilt?
- Quilt is pronounced /ˈkwɪlt/.
- What is the plural of quilt?
- The plural of quilt is quilts.
Words near quilt in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quilt (page history and authors); quilt (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); quilt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quilt (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); کمبل (Urdu) (page history and authors); quilt (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quilt (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quilt (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); રજાઈ (Gujarati) (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.
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