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say it: kwaynt
quaint is an adjective meaning "strange in an interesting or pleasing way". It is pronounced /ˈkweɪnt/ — kwaynt. It carries 3 recorded senses.
strange in an interesting or pleasing way
“quaint dialect words”
“quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities”
very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance
“the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name”
“came forth a quaint and fearful sight”
“a quaint sense of humor”
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
“houses with quaint thatched roofs”
“a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for quaint come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.