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quarter quar·ter

Spelling: [kwawr-ter]

IPA: /ˈkwɔr tər/

Quarter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in quarter (aeqrrtu).

Definitions for quarter

noun

1. one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided:
2. a fourth part, especially of one (¼).
3. one fourth of a U.S. or Canadian dollar, equivalent to 25 cents.
4. a coin of this value.
5. one fourth of an hour:
6. the moment marking this period:
7. one fourth of a calendar or fiscal year:
8. Astronomy. a fourth of the moon's period or monthly revolution, being that portion of its period or orbital course between a quadrature and a syzygy. either quadrature of the moon. Compare first quarter, last quarter.
9. (in schools, colleges, and universities) one of the terms or periods into which instruction is organized, generally 10 to 12 weeks in length.
10. Sports. any of the four periods that make up certain games, as football and basketball. Compare half (def 3).
11. one fourth of a pound.
12. one fourth of a mile; two furlongs.
13. one fourth of a yard; 9 inches.
14. a unit of weight: one fourth of a hundredweight. In the U.S. this equals 25 pounds and in Britain 28 pounds.
15. British. a measure of capacity for grain, etc., equal to 8 bushels, or, locally, to approximately this.
16. the region of any of the four principal points of the compass or divisions of the horizon.
17. such a point or division.
18. any point or direction of the compass:
19. a region, district, or place.
20. a particular district of a city or town, especially one generally occupied by a particular group of people:
21. Usually, quarters. housing accommodations, as a place of residence; lodgings. Military. the buildings, houses, barracks, or rooms occupied by military personnel or their families.
22. Often, quarters. an unspecified part or member of a community, government, etc., that serves as a source of information or authority:
23. mercy or indulgence, especially as shown in sparing the life and accepting the surrender of a vanquished enemy:
24. one of the four parts, each including a leg, of the body or carcass of a quadruped.
25. Veterinary Medicine. the part of a horse's hoof between heel and toe.
26. Shoemaking. the part of a boot or shoe on each side of the foot, from the middle of the back to the vamp.
27. Nautical. the after part of a ship's side, usually from about the aftermost mast to the stern. the general horizontal direction 45° from the stern of a ship on either side: one of the stations to which crew members are called for battle, emergencies, or drills. the part of a yard between the slings and the yardarm. quarter point.
28. Heraldry. any of the four equal areas into which an escutcheon may be divided by a vertical and a horizontal line passing through the center. any of the variously numbered areas into which an escutcheon may be divided for the marshaling of different arms. any of the arms marshaled on an escutcheon. a charge occupying one quarter of an escutcheon, especially that in dexter chief. Compare canton (def 3).
29. each half of a cask, consisting of the portion from the bilge to the top chime and the portion from the bilge to the bottom chime.

adjective

1. being one of four equal or approximately equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
2. being equal to only about one fourth of the full measure.

verb (used with object)

1. to divide into four equal or equivalent parts.
2. to divide into parts fewer or more than four:
3. to cut the body of (a person) into quarters, especially in executing for treason or the like.
4. Machinery. to make holes in, fix, etc., a quarter of a circle apart.
5. to furnish with lodging in a particular place.
6. to impose (soldiers) on persons, towns, etc., to be lodged and fed:
7. to assign to a particular place for service, action, etc., as on a battleship.
8. to traverse (the ground) from left to right and right to left while advancing, as dogs in search of game.
9. Heraldry. to divide (an escutcheon) into four or more parts. to place or bear quarterly (different coats of arms, etc.) on an escutcheon. to display (a coat of arms) with one's own on an escutcheon.

verb (used without object)

1. to take up, or be in quarters; lodge:
2. to range to and fro, as dogs in search of game.
3. Nautical. to sail so as to have the wind or sea on the quarter.

Origin of quarter

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English Anglo-French; Old French quartier Latin quartārius, equivalent to quart(us) fourth + -ārius -ary; (v.) Midd

Examples for quarter

Have they told you that dinner is not till a quarter past eight?

A quarter of a century later, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed that those days had been consigned to history.

More than 30 percent of New Yorkers receive Medicaid, as do more than a quarter of Californians.

Harriett couldn't lay her hands on the money or on half of it or a quarter.

So I went home—we only lived about a quarter mile away—and I got on my bicycle and rode back, and he was in the donut shop.

We are overwhelmed with data from every quarter, and our capacity to filter fact from fraud is limited.

The rain's over, I declare—at least for a quarter of an hour!

He has lived so long in the quarter he looks at life from the Parisian angle.

There's one about a quarter of a mile down the stream—Stetson's boat.

Officials have said the war to reclaim upward of a third of Iraq and a quarter of Syria from ISIS could take years.