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proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

  2. 2

    A surname from Catalan.

Etymology

Borrowed both from Hokkien 郭 (Keh) and Catalan Qué. Doublet of Quek, Guo, and Kwok.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of QuerétaroAbbreviation of Querétaro: a state of Mexico.

  2. 2

    Variant of QuebecAbbreviation of Quebec: a province of Canada.

  3. 3

    Variant of Quebec CityAbbreviation of Quebec City: the capital city of Quebec, Canada.

Forms

plural
Ques
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).