Definitions for quarter-day

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quarter-day quarter day

Quarter-Day is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in quarter-day (-aadeqrrtuy).

Definitions for quarter-day

noun

1. (in England, Ireland, and Wales) one of the four days, Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas, or Christmas, regarded as marking off the quarters of the year, on which quarterly payments are due, tenancies begin and end, etc.
2. (in Scotland) one of the four days, Candlemas, Whitsunday, Lammas, or Martinmas, regarded as marking off the quarters of the year.

Origin of quarter-day

First recorded in 1470-80

Examples for quarter-day

Timon, you will be surprised to hear, became much worse than Apemantus, after the dawning of a day which we call quarter day.

By adding a quarter day to each year, there is a surplus of eleven minutes, fourteen seconds.

quarter day is a day when promises to pay are scorned, and on that day Timon was asked for a large sum of money.

He had come to say good-bye to Joanna on a June evening just before the quarter day.

It would be better if they could be got rid of before quarter day, up to which she had weakly said they might remain.

The first were for a full day's work, the second for a half day, and the last for a quarter day.