QUARTER | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of quarter in English quarternoun uk /ˈkwɔː.tər/ us /ˈkwɔːr.t̬ɚ/

quarter noun (FOURTH PART)

Add to word list Add to word list A2 [ C ] one of four equal or almost equal parts of something; ¼: He cut the orange into quarters.quarter of Under a quarter of people questioned said that they were happily married. My house is situated a mile and three-quarters from here.  a quarter of an hour 15 minutes: I waited a quarter of an hour and then went home. See more  a quarter to two, three, etc. A1 (also US a quarter of two, three, etc.) 15 minutes before two, three, etc.: It was a quarter to six when I left. See more  a quarter past two, three, etc. A1 (also US a quarter after two, three, etc.) 15 minutes after two, three, etc.: I'll meet you at a quarter past five. See more [ C ] one of four periods of time into which a year is divided for financial calculations, such as for profits or taxes: There was a fall in unemployment in the second quarter of the year. I get an electricity bill every quarter. [ C ] one of four periods in a game of American football and other ball sports

• The fall in the value of the yen might result in a fractional increase in interest rates of perhaps a quarter of one percent.
• Road accident victims make up almost a quarter of the hospital's patients.
• He inherited a quarter of a million pounds on his mother's death.
• A quarter of the contents of an average family's dustbin is organic matter.
• A quart is so called because it is a quarter of a gallon.

Fractions

• complex fraction
• compound fraction
• deci-
• denominator
• eighth
• eightieth
• fortieth
• fourteenth
• fraction
• in
• in half
• ninetieth
• ninth
• seventeenth
• seventieth
• sixteenth
• sixtieth
• tenth
• thirteenth
• twentieth

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Specific periods of time American football Parts & stages of competitions

quarter noun (COIN)

B2 [ C ] in the US and Canada, a coin worth 25 cents North American money

• buck
• C-note
• cent
• dime
• dollar
• dollar bill
• dollar sign
• double eagle
• G, g
• greenback
• nickel
• penny
• smacker
• toonie
• two bits

quarter noun (AREA)

C2 [ C ] an area of a town where a particular group of people live or work or where a particular activity happens: This is the bustling commercial quarter of the city. Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities

• 15-minute city
• anti-development
• arrondissement
• backstreet
• backstreets
• growth area
• industrial estate
• industrial park
• inner ring
• marketplace
• mean streets
• medina
• plaza
• precinct
• residential
• slum
• suburbia
• the West End
• the wrong/other side of the tracks idiom
• wasteland

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Towns & regions: environments & localities

quarter noun (PEOPLE)

[ C ] one or more people who provide help, information, or a particular reaction to something but who are not usually named: Help came from an unexpected quarter.in some, many, certain, etc. quarters There is a feeling in some quarters (= some people consider) that a change is needed. Groups of people

• affinity group
• alliance
• an
• anti-gang
• assemblage
• clutch
• drove
• federation
• federative
• First Nation
• first people
• flashmob
• lobby
• new wave
• non-minority
• online community
• out-group
• overflow crowd
• relay
• trinity

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People in general

quarter noun (PLACE TO LIVE)

 quarters [ plural ] a room or house that has been provided, especially for servants or soldiers and their families, to live in: married quarters The army's married quarters are just outside the town. See more [ C ] Indian English a house or other place to live that has been provided by a company for an employee Houses & homes

• A-frame
• ADU
• affordable housing
• almshouse
• apartment
• door
• dorm
• dormitory
• dosshouse
• dower house
• mobile home
• model house
• mother-in-law suite
• multi-unit
• multifamily
• thatched cottage
• tied cottage
• tipi
• tollhouse
• tower block

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quarter noun (FORGIVENESS)

[ U ] literary the fact of being kind towards or forgiving an enemy or opponent: no quarter We can expect no quarter from our enemies. He gave no quarter to anyone that disappointed him. Lenient & merciful

• charitable
• charitably
• charity
• clemency
• ease
• ease up/off phrasal verb
• easy
• go easy idiom
• have a heart! idiom
• heart
• leniency
• lenient
• lenient with someone
• magnanimous
• magnanimously
• merciful
• mercy
• squishy

quarterverb uk /ˈkwɔː.tər/ us /ˈkwɔːr.t̬ɚ/

quarter verb (CUT INTO FOUR)

[ T often passive ] to cut something into four parts Separating and dividing

• apheresis
• atomize
• balkanization
• balkanize
• balkanized
• dismember
• dismemberment
• dissociable
• dissociate
• dissociate yourself from something phrasal verb
• non-detachable
• non-dialysable
• parcel something out phrasal verb
• partible
• periodization
• ungraded
• unjoined
• unmix
• unmixable
• unmixed

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quarter verb (SOLDIER)

[ T usually passive, + adv/prep ] to send someone, especially soldiers, to live in a place: The soldiers were quartered with (= they lived with) local people during the war. to accommodate someone

• accommodateThere aren’t enough rooms to accommodate all the students.
• give accommodation toThe university gives free accommodation to nursing students.
• provide accommodation toWe only provide accommodation to first-year students.
• lodgeStudents will be lodged with host families.
• houseThe base can house up to 2,000 soldiers.
• put someone upI can put you up for a couple of nights.

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• accommodate
• billet
• board and lodging
• boarding and lodging
• camp
• deinstitutionalize
• full board
• institutionalize
• modified American plan
• non-residential
• noninstitutionalized
• placement
• put
• rehouse
• resettle
• resettlement
• room and board
• seat
• self-catering
• sleep

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The armed forces generally (Definition of quarter from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

quarter | American Dictionary

quarternoun [ C ] us /ˈkwɔr·t̬ər/

quarter noun [C] (FOURTH PART)

Add to word list Add to word list one of four equal or almost equal parts of something: My house is one and three-quarter miles/a mile and three-quarters from here. A quarter of/to the hour means 15 minutes before the stated hour: It’s a quarter to three. A quarter past/after the hour means 15 minutes after the stated hour: I’ll meet you at a quarter past five. A quarter is one of four equal or nearly equal periods of time into which an activity is divided: Many universities divide the school year into quarters rather than two semesters.

quarter noun [C] (MONEY)

in the US and Canada, a coin worth 25 cents

quarter noun [C] (AREA)

an area of a city or place having a special history or character: We stayed in the French Quarter in New Orleans. quarterverb [ T ] us /ˈkwɔr·t̬ər/

quarter verb [T] (DIVIDE INTO FOUR)

to divide something into four pieces of approximately the same size: Peel and quarter the tomatoes and put them in the stew. (Definition of quarter from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

quarter | Business English

quarternoun [ C ] uk /ˈkwɔːtər/ us ( abbreviation Q); ( abbreviation qtr) Add to word list Add to word list FINANCE, ACCOUNTING a period of three months in a company's financial year: Sales have climbed significantly each quarter. Unquoted companies accounted for 23% of assets at the end of the last quarter.first/second/third quarter The fall was 8% in the first quarter and only 2% in the second. (Definition of quarter from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of quarter

quarter The horizons are = 1, 4, 8, and 12 quarters. From the Cambridge English Corpus The lower one was the altar of the chapel, and the upper one, supported by four columns, was visible from the inmates' quarters. From the Cambridge English Corpus The formation of urban quarters allowed land speculators to undertake the densest possible exploitation of the lots. From the Cambridge English Corpus Table 1 lists the number of subclinical and clinical infections in lactating quarters per compartment of origin for each herd. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, the view that democracy fosters economic liberalization has met with considerable scepticism in certain quarters. From the Cambridge English Corpus The guides divided the city up into quarters, and documented every church and building of significance within each area. From the Cambridge English Corpus Six infections were detected in quarters from heifers, and no infections were detected in quarters from multiparous animals. From the Cambridge English Corpus Antiimperialism was justified in some radical quarters by sound racialist theory. From the Cambridge English Corpus In many quarters the idea that large numbers of adults might learn to communicate in just one foreign language was already too ambitious by half. From the Cambridge English Corpus Resistance to this project has been widespread, as critics from all quarters deny the availability of space between the two views. From the Cambridge English Corpus During the study, the farmers were informed of the infection status of all quarters every 3 weeks. From the Cambridge English Corpus R 271 samples were taken at calving, and 8 samples were taken from quarters that entered the population after purchase of animals. From the Cambridge English Corpus Farmers may be aware that recovered quarters are at higher risk of infection. From the Cambridge English Corpus At least one national parliamentary election occurred in each of these quarters, but only one election was held in most of them. From the Cambridge English Corpus When three quarters of the couples' wealth is pre-annuitized, a coefficient of risk aversion greater than ten is required. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of quarter These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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bottom quarterThey are in the bottom quarter of the pile. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0   consecutive quarterIt may be more helpful, therefore, to look at non-oil output, which fell in the third quarter for the fifth consecutive quarter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0   cramped quartersSimilarly, the often spacious potting shed provided workers who may have lived in cramped quarters with their own spaces in which to work and reflect. From the Cambridge English Corpus   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with quarter What is the pronunciation of quarter?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 四分之一, 季度, （橄欖球賽或其他球賽的）一節，一局… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 四分之一, 季度, （橄榄球赛或其他球赛的）一节，一局… See more in Spanish cuarto, trimestre, moneda de veinticinco centavos… See more in Portuguese quarto, moeda no valor de 25 centavos nos EUA e Canadá, bairro… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian एक चतुर्थांश / एका गोष्टीचे चार समान भाग, १/४., तीन महिने / नफा किंवा कर यासारख्या आर्थिक बाबींसाठी वर्षाचे केलेले चार भाग.… See more 4分の1, （1時間のうちの）15分, 25セント硬貨… See more çeyrek, dörtte bir, çeyrek kala/geçe… See more quart [masculine], quart [masculine] d’heure, vingt-cinq cents [masculine… See more quart, moneda de vint-i-cinc centaus, trimestre… See more kwart, kwartier, kwartaal… See more ஏதாவது ஒன்றின் நான்கு சமமான அல்லது கிட்டத்தட்ட சம பாகங்களில் ஒன்று, ¼, இலாபங்கள் அல்லது வரிகள் போன்ற நிதிக் கணக்கீடுகளுக்காக ஒரு வருடம் பிரிக்கப்படும் நான்கு காலகட்டங்களில் ஒன்று… See more चौथाई, किसी वस्तु के चार बराबर या लगभग बराबर भागों में से एक, (वार्षिक समय की अवधि) तिमाही… See more ચોથા ભાગનું, ત્રિમાસિક, ક્વાર્ટર… See more kvart, kvarter, kvartal… See more fjärdedel, kvart, kvartal… See more satu per empat, syiling dua puluh lima sen, kawasan… See more das Viertel, der Vierteldollar, die Gegend… See more fjerdedel [masculine], kvarter [neuter], kvartdollar [masculine]… See more چوتھائی, چاربرابر ٹکڑے, سال کے 4 برابر حصوں کا ایک حصہ (سہ ماہی)… See more чверть, четверть, 25 центів… See more పావు వంతు, లాభాలు పన్నులవంటి ఆర్ధిక గణాంకాల కోసం సంవత్సరాన్ని నాలుగు భాగాలు చేస్తే అందులో ఒక భాగం, క్వార్టర్… See more এক চতুর্থাংশ, এক চতুর্থাংশ/ বছরের তিন মাস অন্তর, মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্র এবং কানাডায় চালু আছে যে পঁচিশ সেন্ট-এর মুদ্রা… See more čtvrtina, čtvrt, čtvrťák… See more seperempat, seperempat dolar, daerah tempat tinggal… See more หนึ่งในสี่ส่วน, 25 เซ็นต์, ที่พักอาศัย… See more một phần tư, đồng 25 xu, khu phố… See more (jedna) czwarta, czwarta część, ćwierć… See more 4분의 1, (매 정시 앞 혹은 뒤로) 15분, 25센트 동전… See more quarto, quarto di dollaro, moneta del valore di 25 cents in USA e Canada… See more Need a translator?

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• quarter day
• first quarter
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• a quarter of an hour phrase
• a quarter past two, three, etc. phrase
• a quarter to two, three, etc. phrase
• a quarter of two, three, etc., at a quarter to two, three, etc. phrase
• a quarter after two, three, etc., at a quarter past two, three, etc. phrase

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  • Noun 
    • quarter (FOURTH PART)
    • a quarter of an hour
    • a quarter to two, three, etc.
    • a quarter past two, three, etc.
    • quarter (COIN)
    • quarter (AREA)
    • quarter (PEOPLE)
    • quarter (PLACE TO LIVE)
    • quarters
    • quarter (FORGIVENESS)
  • Verb 
    • quarter (CUT INTO FOUR)
    • quarter (SOLDIER)
• American   
  • Noun 
    • quarter (FOURTH PART)
    • quarter (MONEY)
    • quarter (AREA)
  • Verb 
    • quarter (DIVIDE INTO FOUR)
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