quarter
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
business
farriery
finance
football
games
government
heraldry
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
military
monarchy
nautical
nobility
pets
politics
rugby
sports
time
transport
war
Etymology: From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.
Inflected forms:
form: quarters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quarters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quartering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quartered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quartered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: I ate a quarter of the pizza.
A majority of companies in the S&P 500 have at least one woman on their boards, but only about a quarter have more than two, according to a study from PwC.
For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem.
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...].
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
The Shanghai-based company reported Wednesday that net profit soared 246% to 28 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) in the first quarter of 2024, more than double the average analyst estimate of 12.62 billion yuan ($1.7 billion), according to LSEG data.
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fourth part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: Place or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She could not suggest in what quarter of London the shop in question was likely to be as the deceased was accustomed to go about a good deal.
gloss: Place or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I am to haste, / And all who under me thir Banners wave, / Homeward with flying march where we possess / The Quarters of the North […].
gloss: Place or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Place or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Place or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Place or position.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: “I'll tell you something, too,” retorted the captain, duskily flushing. “I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now.”
“I can tell you the names of a number of gentlemen you'll never deal with any more, and that's the whole of Longhurst's gang,” said Jim. “I'll put your pipe out in that quarter, my friend. Here, rout out your traps as quick as look at it, and take your vermin along with you. I'll have a captain in, this very night, that's a sailor, and some sailors to work for him.”
gloss: Place or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I was one morning walking the deck, when Rogers, whose watch it was, sitting upon the quarter, called to me in his usual style, ‘Come here, Bill.’
“My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate.”
gloss: Place or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [A]t last she kicked right over the carriage pole and fell down, after giving me a severe blow on my near quarter.
gloss: The back and sides of the upper of a shoe, extending around the wearer's heel to meet the vamp.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
plural
uncountable
examples: We got help form every quarter.
opposition to the policy came from an unexpected quarter, as well as from certain quarters which had historically opposed it
all quarters of the socialist movement; praise from Conservative quarters
It is something to have that sacerdotal position so frankly recognized; but, I repeat, the ground of objection is an extraordinary one, coming as it does from a Liberal quarter in politics.
V. Gene Robinson's installation as an Episcopal bishop was greeted largely by silence from gay quarters.
[…] and principled criticism of Obama from black quarters.
gloss: Relations between people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom.
I knew two that were competitors for the secretary's place, […] and yet kept good quarter between themselves.
gloss: Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hard fighting and long labour they had still; for the Southrons were bold men and grim, and fierce in despair, and the Easterlings were strong and war-hardened and asked for no quarter.
gloss: A quarterback.
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant.
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
archaic
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Tietjens said: ‘Send the Canadian sergeant-major to me at the double….’ to the quarter.
gloss: A quarterfinal.
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
countable
uncountable
gloss: Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (¹⁄₄, 25%).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound
gloss: Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.
A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.
gloss: To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide housing for (usually military personnel or equipment).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Quarter the horses in the third stable.
I thought that I might as well quarter myself on you for a couple of days.
gloss: To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To quartersaw.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But there is, as in other woods, a great deal of difference between this and the quartered timber.
gloss: To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
gloss: To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
pos: verb
examples: It [the Central London Railway] assumed a modest and entirely heraldic device, quartering the arms of the City of London, the parishes of St. George's, Holborn (St. George and the dragon) and St. Marylebone (the Virgin and Child between two lilies […]), and the county of Middlesex, surmounted by the dragon's wing from the City's crest.
gloss: To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: trimester
cour
stop
Antonyms: quadruple
Related words: quart
draw and quarter
requarter
Derived words: academic quarter
black quarter
case quarter
close quarter
close-quarter
Empty Quarter
false quarter
fat quarter
fifth quarter
first quarter
forequarter
French Quarter
gay quarter
grand quarter
Hartington Middle Quarter
Hartington Nether Quarter
Hartington Town Quarter
hindquarter
interquarter
Jewellery Quarter
lambsquarter
lamb's quarters
last quarter
Latin Quarter
Lowside Quarter
midquarter
multiquarter
no quarter
one quarter
one-quarter
on the quarter
premiership quarter
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
quarterage
quarter-ass
quarter-assed
quarter badge
quarter bathroom
quarter belt
quarter bill
quarter block
quarter-bloke
quarterboy
quarter-breed
quarter-caste
quarter-century
quarter circle
quarter court
quarter-day
quarter-deck
quarter deck
quarterdeck
quarter eagle
quarter-eater
quarterer
quarter-evil
quarter farthing
quarter-final
quarter-finalist
quarterfinalist
quarter glass
quarter gunner
quarter-hearted
quarter-hourly
quarter-ill
quarterite
quarterization
quarterize
quarter jack
quarterland
quarterless
quarter-life crisis
quarterlifer
quarterlight
quarter light
quarterly
quarterman
quarter-master
quartermistress
quarter-muncher
quarter nettings
quarter of
quarter of an hour
quarterpace
quarter-phase
quarter-pipe
quarter pipe
quarter-plate
quarter point
quarter-pounder
quarter rest
quarter-round
quarters
quarter saw
quarter-saw
quarter section
quarter-section
quarterstaff
quarterstave
quarter-sucker
quarter-time
quarter time
quarter tone
quarter-up price
quarter water
quarter-wavelength film
quarter-wave plate
quarter window
quarter-witted
quarter-yearly
quarter-zip
quattie
Swan Quarter
three-quarter
three-quarter back
three-quarter bathroom
three-quarter brother
three-quarter coat
three-quarter sibling
three-quarter sister
three-quarter-time
three quarter time
three-quarter time
three quarter-time
tri-quarter
who put a quarter in you
quarter-miler
quarter blanket
quarter bottle
quarter century
quarter crack
quarter day
quarter final
quarter horse
quarter-hour
quarter-mile
quarter moon
quarter note
quarter pole
quarter pound
quarter seam
quarter session
quarter sovereign
quarter waiter
quarter year
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: քառորդ
roman: kʻaṙord
lang: Bulgarian
word: тримесечие
roman: trimesečie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 季度
roman: jìdù
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: kvartal
lang: Czech
word: čtvrtletí
lang: Czech
word: kvartál
lang: Danish
word: kvartal
lang: Dutch
word: kwartaal
lang: Dutch
word: trimester
lang: Esperanto
word: kvaronjaro
lang: Estonian
word: kvartal
lang: Faroese
word: ársfjórðingur
lang: Finnish
word: neljännesvuosi
lang: Finnish
word: vuosineljännes
lang: French
word: trimestre
lang: Georgian
word: კვარტალი
roman: ḳvarṭali
lang: German
word: Quartal
lang: German
word: Vierteljahr
lang: Greek
word: τριμηνία
roman: triminía
lang: Greek
word: τρίμηνο
roman: trímino
lang: Hebrew
word: רִבְעוֹן
lang: Hindi
word: तिमाही
roman: timāhī
lang: Hindi
word: फसल
roman: phasal
lang: Hindi
word: त्रैमासिक
roman: traimāsik
lang: Hungarian
word: negyedév
lang: Icelandic
word: fjórðungur
lang: Ido
word: yaroquarimo
lang: Ido
word: trimestro
lang: Indonesian
word: kuartal
lang: Indonesian
word: triwulan
lang: Indonesian
word: trimester
lang: Interlingua
word: trimestre
lang: Irish
word: ráithe
lang: Italian
word: trimestre
lang: Japanese
word: 四半期
roman: shihanki
lang: Korean
word: 분기
roman: bun'gi
lang: Lithuanian
word: ketvirtis
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kvartal
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kvartal
lang: Persian
word: فصل
roman: fasl
lang: Persian
word: سهماهه
roman: se-mâhe
lang: Polish
word: kwartał
lang: Portuguese
word: trimestre
lang: Romanian
word: trimestru
lang: Russian
word: кварта́л
roman: kvartál
lang: Russian
word: че́тверть
roman: čétvertʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ràith
lang: Slovak
word: štvrťrok
lang: Spanish
word: trimestre
lang: Swedish
word: kvartal
lang: Telugu
word: త్రైమాసికం
roman: traimāsikaṁ
lang: Thai
word: ไตรมาส
roman: dtrai-mâat
lang: Turkish
word: trimestır
lang: Turkish
word: çeyrekyıl
lang: Ukrainian
word: ква́ртал
roman: kvártal
lang: Zazaki
word: çeyregser