Quarter
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English
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Etymology
Via French from Latin quartus, fourth.
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Noun
quarter (plural: quarters)
- 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.).
- An old English measure of corn, containing 8 bushels.
- Quotations
- 1882: 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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 204.
- Quotations
- Mercy or pity shown to a defeated opponent (e.g., "We will give no quarter.")
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Synonyms
- (one of four equal parts): fourth, fourth part
- (period of three consecutive months): trimester
- (section of a town): borough, district, region
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Translations
one of four equal parts
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coin worth 25 cents
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period of three months
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section of a town
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Transitive verb
to quarter (third-person singular simple present quarters, present participle quartering, simple past quartered, past participle quartered)
- To divide into quarters.
- To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- Quarter the horses in the third stable.
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