Definition of quality:

• In respect to persons, this term denotes comparative rank; state or condition in relation to others; social or civil position or class. In pleading, it means an attribute or characteristic by which one tiling is distinguished from another.
• a degree or grade of excellence or worth; " the quality of students has risen"; " an executive of low caliber"
• the distinctive property of a complex sound ( a voice or noise or musical sound); " the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; " the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
• The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
• Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.
• An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.
• Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.
• That which belongs to a thing and makes it what it is and different from other things; nature; kind; as, the qualities of cloth or iron; relative goodness; as, goods of high quality; trait or characteristic; as, generosity is one of his many fine qualities; special virtue; as, the healing quality of an ointment; rank; high birth; as, a lady of quality; distinctive tone; as, a voice of carrying quality.
• That which makes a thing what it is: property: peculiar power: acquisition: character: rank: superior birth or character.
• Property; characteristic; rank.
• Essential property; characteristic.
• Degree of goodness.
• Capacity.
• Property; nature, relatively considered; virtue or particular power; disposition; temper; virtue or vice; acquirement; accomplishment; character; comparative rank; superior rank; persons of high rank collectively.
• That which belongs to a body or substance; the power or property of producing certain effects; disposition; temper; virtue or vice; acquirement; condition in relation to others; superior rank or distinction; persons of high rank taken collectively.
• of high social status; " people of quality"; " a quality family"
• an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; " the quality of mercy is not strained"-- Shakespeare

Usage examples for quality

1. Courage was not the only marked quality of Coriolanus.  Good Stories For Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

2. Blue is of heaven; its quality is not of earth.  Dawn by Mrs. Harriet A. Adams

3. Other ladies of quality soon perceived this, and they also refused to serve; so that the collection fell into all sorts of hands, and sometimes was not made at all.  The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 4 And His Court and of The Regency by Duc de Saint-Simon

4. They picked out a smaller one, which Celia said was at least of fair quality.  The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic