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hint definition

hint (hint)

noun

  1. a slight indication of a fact, wish, etc.; indirect suggestion or piece of advice; intimation; covert allusion a hint that we should leave
  2. a very small amount or degree; trace a hint of spice
  3. Obsolete an occasion; opportunity

Etymology: prob. var. of hent

transitive verb

to give a hint of; suggest indirectly; intimate

intransitive verb

to make a hint or hints

Related Forms:

hint Idioms

hint at

to suggest indirectly; intimate

take a hint

to perceive and act on a hint

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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