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Quarters

noun

1.

Housing available for people to live in. Synonym: living quarters. "I visited his bachelor quarters"

Quarter

noun

1.

One of four equal parts. Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent.

2.

A district of a city having some distinguishing character.

3.

(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided.

4.

A unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour. "A quarter after 4 o'clock"

5.

One of four periods into which the school year is divided.

6.

A fourth part of a year; three months.

7.

One of the four major division of the compass.

8.

A quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds).

9.

A quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds).

10.

A United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar.

11.

An unspecified person.

12.

The rear part of a ship. Synonyms: after part, poop, stern, tail.

13.

Piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp.

14.

Clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent.

verb

(past & past part. quartered; pres. part. quartering)

1.

Provide housing for (military personnel). Synonyms: billet, canton.

2.

Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him. Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter.

3.

Divide into quarters.

4.

Divide by four; divide into quarters.

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"Quarters" Quotes from Famous Books

... not been everywhere appreciated as I hoped. I have met in certain quarters the remark that I "am slippery, and evade the question." Now on the point of sincerity I am particularly susceptible. I have the sentiment of being a straightforward man, and I would not be charged with having stolen into the sympathies of England without displaying ...

— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth

... fat, broad tower looks strong enough and solid enough and grim enough for anything. Inside of the fort everything is clean, regular and orderly, as becomes a place under the care of British soldiers. The house, or quarters I suppose they should be called, are clean and bright, whitewashed (I almost said pipe-clayed), to the highest point of perfection. There are fortifications above fortifications here, and plenty of cannon ...

— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall

... Three-quarters of an hour more along an apparently disused road and they came upon a trail which was barely discernible, leading up a steep and densely wooded hill. In places they had to climb over rugged terraces, extricating themselves from such mazes of ...

— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... syllables, of which there were many, rippled after each other like water in a brook. It seemed, too, as if they said quite as much to each other by signs as by words. That is always so among people who live a great deal out-of-doors, or in narrow quarters, where other people ...

— The Talking Leaves - An Indian Story • William O. Stoddard

... Son, you can take it from me there's been a regular season of grand opera. You and me are about to be accused of pernicious activity. What's more, they're liable to prove it. There's a movement on foot in influential quarters to provide us with board and lodgings at a place which I will not name to you in so many words on account of your weak heart. The work there,' I says, 'is regular, and the meals is served on time, and you're protected ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

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