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quadrangles

quadrangles is the plural of quadrangle.

Meaning of quadrangle

Noun

quadrangle (plural quadrangles)

  1. Synonym of quadrilateral (“a polygon with four sides”).
    Synonyms:
    quadrilateral
  2. A courtyard which is quadrangular.
    • I looked up from my desk and saw that suddenly there were big flakes twirling down into the quadrangle, settling on the carefully pruned shrubbery bordering the crosswalks, the three elms still holding many of their leaves, the still-green lawns.1959, John Knowles, chapter 7, in A Separate Peace
    Synonyms:
    quad
  3. The buildings forming the border of such a courtyard.
    • The quadrangle surrounding the Far Common was never considered absolutely essential to the Devon School.1959, John Knowles, chapter 13, in A Separate Peace

Phrases with quadrangles

Questions about quadrangles

What is quadrangles the plural of?
Quadrangles is the plural of quadrangle.

Words near quadrangles in the dictionary

  1. quadrals
  2. quadramodal
  3. quadran
  4. quadrangle
  5. quadrangled
  6. quadrangles
  7. quadrangular
  8. quadrangularin
  9. quadrangularins
  10. quadrangularities
  11. quadrangularity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quadrangles (page history and authors); quadrangle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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