Dictionary Definition
quarter
Noun
1 one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"
[syn: one-fourth,
fourth, fourth part,
twenty-five
percent, quartern]
2 a district of a city having some distinguishing
character; "the Latin Quarter"
3 one of four periods of play into which some
games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter"
4 a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter
of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter after 4
o'clock"
5 one of four periods into which the school year
is divided; "the fall quarter ends at Christmas"
6 a fourth part of a year; three months;
"unemployment fell during the last quarter"
7 one of the four major division of the compass;
"the wind is coming from that quarter"
8 a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
9 a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
10 a United States coin worth one fourth of a
dollar; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"
11 an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in
the right quarter"
13 piece of leather that comprises the part of a
shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
Verb
2 pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to
his extremities, so as to execute him; "in the old days, people
were drawn and quartered for certain crimes" [syn: draw, draw and
quarter]
3 divide into quarters; "quarter an apple"
4 divide by four; divide into quarters
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Via from quartusPronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)tə(r)
Noun
- Any one of four equal parts into which something has been divided.
- (United States and Canada) A coin worth 25 cents.
- A period of three consecutive months.
- A section or area (of a town, etc.).
- Accommodation granted to a defeated opponent
- "Sir, they have asked for quarter." "Have they? Well, we will give no quarter."
- An old English measure of corn, containing 8 bushels.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and
Prices in England, volume 4, p. 204.
- One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and
Prices in England, volume 4, p. 204.
- An old English measure of cloth, nine inches or four nails
Synonyms
Derived terms
- no quarter
- quarterly
- quarters
- quarter of
- quarter past
- quarter to
- give no quarter
Related terms
Translations
one of four equal parts
- Albanian: çerek
- Arabic:
- Catalan: quart
- Chinese: 四分之一 (sì fēn zhīyī)
- Croatian: četvrt
- Czech: čtvrt
- Danish: kvart
- Dutch: kwart
- Esperanto: kvarono
- Estonian: neljandik
- Finnish: neljännes, neljäsosa
- French: quart, quartier
- German: Viertel
- Greek: τέταρτο
- Hebrew: רבע
- Hungarian: negyed
- Icelandic: fjórðungur
- Indonesian: seperempat
- Interlingua: quarto, quarte parte
- Irish: ceathrú
- Italian: quarto
- Japanese: 四分の一 (よんぶんのいち, yombun-no-ichi), 四半 (shihan), 四半分 (shihanbun)
- Korean: 사본의 일 (sabunui il)
- Kurdish: چارهک
- Lithuanian: ketvirtadalis, ketvirtis
- Malayalam: കാല് (kaal)
- Persian: (charak)
- Polish: ćwierć
- Portuguese: quarto , quarta parte
- Romanian: sfert
- Russian: четверть (čétvért’)
- Spanish: cuarto
- Swedish: fjärdedel , kvart , kvarts
- Telugu: పావు భాగం (paavu bhaagaM), నాలుగో వంతు (naalugO vaMtu)
coin worth 25 cents
- Dutch: kwartje
- French: pièce de vingt-cinq cents
- Italian: moneta di venticinque centesimi
- Kurdish:
- Persian: (bistopanj senti)
- Spanish: cora italbrac El Salvador, cuarto italbrac Panama
- Telugu: పావలా (paavalaa) (Quarter of Indian Rupee)
period of three months
- Czech: čtvrtletí, kvartál
- Danish: kvatal
- Dutch: kwartaal, trimester
- Finnish: neljännesvuosi
- French: trimestre
- German: Quartal
- Hebrew: רבעון
- Icelandic: fjórðungur
- Indonesian: kuartal
- Interlingua: trimestre
- Japanese: 4半期 / 四半期 (しはんき, shihanki)
- Lithuanian: ketvirtis
- Persian: (fasl)
- Polish: kwartał
- Portuguese: trimestre
- Russian: квартал (kvartál)
- Spanish: trimestre
- Swedish: kvartal
- Telugu: త్రైమాసికం (traimaasikaM)
section of a town
Verb
- To divide into quarters.
- To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- Quarter the horses in the third stable.
Extensive Definition
Quarter may refer to:
- Quarter (academic), a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks
- Quarter (United States coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar
- Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar
- Quarter day, in British and Irish tradition, one of four dates in each year on which rents, etc. were due
- Quartering (heraldry), joining several coats of arms on one shield partitioned in four
- "Quarters", a drinking game
- Academic Quarter, term used by nordic universities for the 15 minutes between the defined start time for a lecture and the actual time it will start
- Fiscal quarter, three months of a fiscal year
- One fourth, ¼, or 25%
In geography:
- Quarter (country subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
- Armenian Quarter, one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem
- Christian Quarter, one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem
- French Quarter, the oldest and most famous neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana
- Jewish Quarter, one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem
- Latin Quarter, in a number of cities
- Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
- Muslim Quarter, one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem
- Quartier international de Montréal
- Quartier Latin, an area of Paris
- Quartier Militaire, in Mauritius
- Quartiere, a subdivision of certain Italian towns
- The Quarter at Tropicana, an entertainment and retail attraction in Atlantic City, New Jersey
In military and combat:
- 1st Battalion 4th Marines (1/4), a unit in the United States Marine Corps
- Barracks, living quarters for personnel on a military post.
- Close quarters battle
- General quarters
- No quarter occurs when a victor shows no clemency or mercy and refuses to spare the life of the vanquished when they surrender at discretion
See also
quarter in German: Quarter
quarter in French: Quartier
quarter in Korean: 쿼터
quarter in Japanese: クオーター
quarter in Simple English: Quarter
quarter in Thai: ควอร์เตอร์
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
C, C-note,
G, G-note, abode, abundant year, academic
year, accommodate,
accommodations,
achievement,
adjunct, aim, airspace, alerion, anchor, animal charge, annulet, annum, area, argent, armorial bearings,
armory, arms, azimuth, azure, bandeau, bank, bar, bar sinister, barracks, barrio, baton, beam, bearing, bearings, bed, belt, bend, bend sinister, benevolence, bent, berth, billet, billet at, bissextile
year, bivouac, blazon, blazonry, board, border, bordure, broad arrow, broadside, buck, bunk, burrow, cadency mark, calendar
month, calendar year, camp,
canton, cantonment, cartwheel, casern, cent, century, chambers, chaplet, charge, cheek, chevron, chief, chop, clemency, coast, coat of arms, cockatrice, colonize, come to anchor,
commiseration,
common year, compassion, component, condolence, confines, continental shelf,
contingent, copper, coronet, corridor, country, course, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, cross
section, crown, current, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year,
department, detachment, detail, device, difference, differencing, dime, direction, direction line,
district, division, dole, dollar, dollar bill, domesticate, domicile, domiciliate, drift, drop anchor, dwelling, eagle, ensconce, entertain, environs, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, establish
residence, falcon,
farthing, favor, feeling, fess, fess point, field, fifty cents, file, fin, fiscal year, fish, five cents, five hundred
dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot,
fiver, flanch, flank, fleur-de-lis, forbearance, forgiveness, fortnight, four bits, fourth, fourth part, fraction, fret, frogskin, fur, fusil, garland, grace, grand, griffin, ground, gules, gyron, habitation, half G, half a C,
half dollar, half grand, hand, handedness, harbor, hatchment, haunch, heading, heartland, helmet, helmsmanship, heraldic
device, hinterland,
hip, hive, home, honor point, hour, house, humanity, hundred-dollar bill,
hut, impalement, impaling, inclination, inescutcheon, inhabit, installment, iron man,
item, jowl, keep house, kindness, label, land, laterality, lay, leap year, leniency, lie, line, line of direction, line of
march, lion, live at,
living quarters, locale,
locality, locate, location, lodge, lodgings, lozenge, lunar month, lunar
year, lunation,
luster, lustrum, man-hour, mantling, many-sidedness,
marshaling, martlet, mascle, mercifulness, mercy, metal, microsecond, milieu, mill, millennium, millisecond, minute, mitigation, moment, month, moon, moor, motto, move, mullet, multilaterality,
navigation, neighborhood, nest, nickel, nombril point, octofoil, offshore rights,
one-fourth, or, ordinary, orientation, orle, pale, paly, parcel, pardon, park, part, particular, parts, pathos, pean, penny, people, percentage, perch, pheon, piloting, pity, place, planking, point, portion, post, precinct, precincts, premises, profile, purlieus, purpure, put up, quadrant, quadrature, quadrisect, quart, quartering, quartern, quarters, quarto, quinquennium, quota, random sample, range, red cent, region, regular year, relief, relocate, remainder, reprieve, reside, residence, room, rooms, roost, rose, run, ruth, sable, salient, saltire, sample, sampling, sawbuck, scutcheon, second, section, sector, segment, self-pity, semester, session, set, set up housekeeping, set up
shop, settle, settle
down, share, shelter, shield, shore, side, sidereal year, siding, silver dollar, sit down,
skin, smacker, soil, solar year, space, spot, spread eagle, squat, stable, stand, station, stay at, steerage, steering, strike root, subdivision, subgroup, subordinary, subspecies, sun, sympathy, take residence at,
take root, take up residence, temple, ten cents, ten-spot,
tendency, tenne, tenner, tenor, term, terrain, territory, thousand dollars,
thousand-dollar bill, three-mile limit, tincture, torse, track, trend, tressure, trimester, twelve-mile limit,
twelvemonth,
twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, twenty-five percent, two
bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, unicorn, unilaterality, vair, vert, vicinage, vicinity, way, week, weekday, wreath, yale, yard, year, zone