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Definition of quarters

noun:

• housing available for people to live in; "he found quarters for his family", "I visited his bachelor quarters". Synonyms: living quarters.
• one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound". Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent.
• a district of a city having some distinguishing character; "the Latin Quarter". Synonyms: quarter.
• (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter". Synonyms: quarter.
• 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". Synonyms: quarter.
• one of four periods into which the school year is divided; "the fall quarter ends at Christmas". Synonyms: quarter.
• a fourth part of a year; three months; "unemployment fell during the last quarter". Synonyms: quarter.
• one of the four major division of the compass; "the wind is coming from that quarter". Synonyms: quarter.
• a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds). Synonyms: quarter.
• a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds). Synonyms: quarter.
• a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine". Synonyms: quarter.
• an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in the right quarter". Synonyms: quarter.
• the rear part of a ship. Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, stern, tail.
• piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp. Synonyms: quarter.
• clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent; "he surrendered but asked for quarter". Synonyms: quarter.

verb:

• provide housing for (military personnel). Synonyms: billet, canton, quarter.
• 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". Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter, quarter.
• divide into quarters; "quarter an apple". Synonyms: quarter.
• divide by four; divide into quarters. Synonyms: quarter.

Related words

accommodation, barrio, casbah, diggings, digs, domiciliation, dorm, dormitory, forecastle, ghetto, hall, hareem, harem, kasbah, lodgings, medina, pad, seraglio, serail.

Words nearby

quarter, quartern.