quality
pronunciation
How to pronounce quality in British English:
UK [ˈkwɒləti]
How to pronounce quality in American English:
US [ˈkwɑːləti]
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- Noun:
- an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
- a degree or grade of excellence or worth
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- high social status
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- Adjective:
- of superior grade
- of high social status
Word Origin
- quality
- quality: [13] The ultimate source of quality is Latin quālis ‘of what sort?’, a compound pronoun formed from quī ‘who’ and the adjectival suffix -ālis. From it were derived the noun quālitās, source of English quality, and quālificāre, from which English gets qualify [16].=> qualify
- quality (n.)
- c. 1300, "temperament, character, disposition," from Old French qualite "quality, nature, characteristic" (12c., Modern French qualité), from Latin qualitatem (nominative qualitas) "a quality, property; nature, state, condition" (said [Tucker, etc.] to have been coined by Cicero to translate Greek poiotes), from qualis "what kind of a," from PIE pronominal base *kwo- (see who). Meaning "degree of goodness" is late 14c. Meaning "social rank, position" is c. 1400. Noun phrase quality time first recorded 1977. Quality of life is from 1943. Quality control first attested 1935.
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Example
- 1. I apologize for the quality .
- 2. Want a different voice quality ?
- 3. Use high quality resume paper .
- 4. Your products decline in quality .
- 5. Specialisation generally means higher quality .