Word.ws English Dictionary

quarterfinal

quarterfinal noun: one of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.

Noun

quarterfinal (plural quarterfinals)

  1. One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
  2. (general) A competition that narrows a field of contestants (quarterfinalists) to a set of semifinalists, for a subsequent final.

quarterfinal meaning in Persian and Vietnamese

quarterfinal in Persian

competition in a tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals
یکچهارم نهایی yek-čahârom-e nahâyi

quarterfinal in Vietnamese

competition in a tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals
tứ kết

Synonyms of quarterfinal

Forms of quarterfinal

pluralquarterfinals
alternative formquarter final
alternative formquarter-final

Plural of quarterfinal: quarterfinals

Origin of quarterfinal

From quarter + final.

Words formed from quarterfinal

Words that rhyme with quarterfinal

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about quarterfinal

What does quarterfinal mean?
Quarterfinal means one of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
What is quarterfinal in Persian?
Quarterfinal in Persian is یکچهارم نهایی (yek-čahârom-e nahâyi). See Quarterfinal meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is quarterfinal?
Quarterfinal is a noun.
What is the plural of quarterfinal?
The plural of quarterfinal is quarterfinals.

Words near quarterfinal in the dictionary

  1. quartereen
  2. quartereens
  3. quarterer
  4. quarterers
  5. quartereth
  6. quarterfinal
  7. quarterfinalist
  8. quarterfinalists
  9. quarterfinals
  10. quarterfoil
  11. quarterfoils

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quarterfinal (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-quaterfinal.wav.

Cite this entry: “quarterfinal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/quarterfinal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.