Definition of Hint

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Definition of Hint

Hint

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.

A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.

Related Definitions:

Allude, Allusion, Also, An, As, Bring, By, Declaration, Explanation, Full, Hint, In, Indirect, Insinuation, Intimation, Make, Manner, Mention, Mind, Motive, Occasion, Or, Reference, Reminder, Remote, Slight, Something, Suggest, Suggestion, Suspicion, To, Vaguely, Without

Hint Quotations

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
Paul McCartney

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
Esther Williams

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
Andrew Greeley

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.
Richard Le Gallienne

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
Rebecca H. Davis

Hint Translations

hint in Afrikaans is wenk
hint in Dutch is zinspelen
hint in Finnish is viitata
hint in French is indication, pronostic
hint in German is Andeutung {f}, Hinweis {m}
hint in Italian is alludere, suggerimento, riferimento
hint in Norwegian is antyde, antydning, vink, ymte
hint in Spanish is indirecta, remision
hint in Swedish is tips, antydan, vink

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