Quick Definition
(colloquial) With speed, quickly.
- those who are alive; the living
Other Word Forms of Quick
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Quick
- the quick
Origin of Quick
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From Middle English quik or quic, from Old English cwic (“alive"), from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gÊ·ih₃wós (“alive"), from *gÊ·ey- (“to live"), *gÊ·eih₃w- (“to live"). Cognate with Dutch kwik and kwiek, German keck, Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bios, “life"), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive"), Latvian dzÄ«vs (“alive"), Russian живой (živoj), Welsh byw (“alive"), Irish beo (“alive"), biathaim (“nourish"), Kurdish jîn (“to live") and jiyan (“life"), giyan (“soul"), can (“soul"), Sanskrit जीव (jÄ«va, “living").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English alive, lively, quick from Old English cwicu alive gwei- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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