Quentin [kwen-tn] Examples noun
- a male or female given name: from a Latin word meaning “fifth.”
Examples from the Web for quentin Contemporary Examples of quentin
Great for the aspiring Quentin Tarantino, or for the aspiring next Feiffer.
William O’Connor
December 12, 2014
Apparently, Quentin Tarantino did a bunch of uncredited rewrites on that?
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Marlow Stern
September 27, 2014
You worked with Steven Spielberg in Lincoln and Quentin Tarantino in Django Unchained.
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Allen Barra
February 11, 2014
Quentin is no longer that little discolored alien placed on my chest in the delivery room.
No Sex For Six Weeks After Giving Birth? It’s Too Long!
Aurora Snow
December 27, 2013
On Dec. 10, at 8:27 a.m., baby Quentin came into the world purple and covered in white goo.
No Sex For Six Weeks After Giving Birth? It’s Too Long!
Aurora Snow
December 27, 2013
Historical Examples of quentin
For as Quentin wins Isabelle at last, what more success need we want?
George Saintsbury
Nor was the defeat at St. Quentin the only disaster which the French arms experienced.
W. Llewelyn Williams.
With luck, the syndicate would get him off with a couple of years at Quentin.
Dallas McCord Reynolds
And Quentin was served in all things as though he had been a king.
Edith Nesbit
Quentin was shivering with the surprise and newness of it all.
Edith Nesbit
Word Origin and History for quentin Quentin
masc. proper name, from French, from Latin Quin(c)tianus, from quintus “the fifth.” Roman children in large families often were named for their birth order (e.g. Sextius; also cf. Octavian). “[P]opular in France from the cult of St Quentin of Amiens, and brought to England by the Normans” [“Dictionary of English Surnames”], but the popular English form as a surname was Quinton.