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quintations

quintations is the plural of quintation.

Meaning of quintation

Noun

quintation (countable and uncountable, plural quintations)

  1. (rare) The removal of one fifth (of something).
    • Perhaps the quintation of slats came from the hands of the indentured Hollander.1946, Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, The Story of American Furniture, page 161

Questions about quintations

What is quintations the plural of?
Quintations is the plural of quintation.

Words near quintations in the dictionary

  1. quintas
  2. quintate
  3. quintates
  4. quintating
  5. quintation
  6. quintations
  7. Quintavius
  8. quinte
  9. Quinte West
  10. Quintel
  11. Quintela

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quintations (page history and authors); quintation (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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