quality
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quality/ˈkwɒləti/
▶noun (pl. qualities)
- 1 the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind.
■ general excellence.
■ archaic high social standing.
- 2 a distinctive attribute or characteristic.
■ Phonetics the distinguishing characteristic or characteristics of a speech sound.
– origin ME: from OFr. qualite, from L. qualitas, from qualis ‘of what kind, of such a kind’.
'quality' also found in these Oxford entries:
-ability
- -able
- abstract
- abstraction
- accent
- -acity
- acquire
- acute accent
- -acy
- adulterate
- air
- air quality
- Alar
- ambience
- ambiguity
- -ance
- -ancy
- Anglicism
- animal magnetism
- appeal
- appraise
- approximate
- arytenoid
- ascribe
- aspect
- assay
- assess
- assume
- -aster
- attraction
- attribute
- aura
- bad
- badge
- bankrupt
- best
- bioindicator
- blackwood
- blue-chip
- blue riband
- B-movie
- bohea
- bond paper
- borderline
- brand
- butternut
- cabinetmaker
- calibre
- candour
- canon
