Quentin

[ kwen-tn ]

/ ˈkwɛn tn /

a male or female given name: from a Latin word meaning “fifth.”

QUIZZES

Even if you can't be a professional chef, you can at least talk like one with this vocabulary quiz.

Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

Great for the aspiring Quentin Tarantino, or for the aspiring next Feiffer.
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Apparently, Quentin Tarantino did a bunch of uncredited rewrites on that?
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You worked with Steven Spielberg in Lincoln and Quentin Tarantino in Django Unchained.
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Quentin is no longer that little discolored alien placed on my chest in the delivery room.
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Quentin Tarantino and Elmore Leonard, talk about a perfect union.
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She received Quentin Dick, to whom she was well known, with a mixture of goodwill and quiet dignity.
Hunted and Harried|R.M. Ballantyne
Blacksmith no more, said Quentin, stepping from behind the canvas, but the artist who demands his reward.
The Spell of Belgium|Isabel Anderson
"Not a chance of breaking through that screen of electricity," said Quentin.
Spacewrecked on Venus|Neil R. Jones
Two of them were wounded, and Quentin was killed in a battle in the air.
Theodore Roosevelt|Edmund Lester Pearson
Dickey was pacing their rooms excitedly when Quentin entered.
Castle Craneycrow|George Barr McCutcheon