quarters
UK/ˈkwɔːtəz//ˈkwɔɹtɚz/
quarters is the plural of quarter.
quarters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quarter.
Noun
quarters
- Housing, barracks, or other habitation or living space.
- “I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 1, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
- "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?"
"My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the...2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024
- The place where someone or something lives.
- The local pet trade thrives on captured or orphaned baby macaques—often malnourished and kept in tight quarters.2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-t...
- A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
- Quarterfinals.
Meaning of quarter
Noun
quarter (countable and uncountable, plural quarters)
- Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
- I ate a quarter of the pizza.
- Synonyms:
- fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, ¼
- A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
- 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, page 204
- A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
- A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
- A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
- And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...].1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark vj:[48]
- A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
- The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN
Words formed from quarters
Phrases with quarters
- fat quarters
- gay quarters
- case quarters
- hind quarters
- last quarters
- false quarters
- fifth quarters
- first quarters
- grand quarters
- lamb's quarters
- academic quarters
- draws and quarters
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Questions about quarters
- What does quarters mean?
- Quarters means housing, barracks, or other habitation or living space.
- What is quarters the plural of?
- Quarters is the plural of quarter.
- What part of speech is quarters?
- Quarters is a noun.
- How do you pronounce quarters?
- Quarters is pronounced /ˈkwɔɹtɚz/ (US).
Words near quarters in the dictionary
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