quintuplet

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: quin=tu=plet

CIDE DICTIONARY

quintuplet, n. [From Quintuple.].

•  A collection or combination of five of a kind.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  Five children born in the same labor.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A group of five connected notes; a turn of five notes.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A cycle having five crank shafts and adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quintuplet, n.
1 each of five children born at one birth.
2 a set of five things working together.
3 Mus. a group of five notes to be performed in the time of three or four.

Etymology

QUINTUPLE, after QUADRUPLET, TRIPLET

THESAURUS

quintuplet

Little Phoebe, Pentateuch, Phoebe, V, cinque, fin, five, five bucks, five dollars, fiver, fivesome, mullet, pentachord, pentad, pentagon, pentagram, pentahedron, pentameter, pentapody, pentarchy, pentastich, pentathlon, quincunx, quint, quintet

ROGET THESAURUS

quintuplet

Five

N five, five, cinque, quint, quincux, six, half-a- dozen, half dozen, seven, eight, nine, three times three, dicker, ten, decade, eleven, twelve, dozen, thirteen, long dozen, baker's dozen, quintuplet, twenty, score, twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen, twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred, forty, two score, fifty, half a hundred, sixty, three score, seventy, three score and ten, eighty, four score, ninety, fourscore and ten, sestiad, hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century, hundredweight, cwt, one hundred and forty-four, gross, thousand, chiliad, millennium, thousand years, grand, myriad, ten thousand, ban, man, ten thousand years, banzai, lac, one hundred thousand, plum, million, thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion, five, quinary, quintuple, fifth, senary, sextuple, sixth, seventh, septuple, octuple, eighth, ninefold, ninth, tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth, eleventh, duodenary, duodenal, twelfth, in one's 'teens, thirteenth, vicesimal, vigesimal, twentieth, twenty-fourth, vicenary, vicennial, centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial, secular, hundredth, thousandth.