quarter

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Cardinal: four     Ordinal: fourth     Multiplier: quadruple     Distributive: quadruply     Fractional: quarter, fourth     Number of musicians: quartet

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /ˈk(w)ɔːtə/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /ˈk(w)ɔr.tɚ/
• (NZ) IPA ^(key): /ˈkoː.tɘ/

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Noun

Singular quarter

Plural quarters

1. (countable) A quarter is one fourth ($1/4$) of something.

   The lake was about a quarter mile from town.

   About a quarter of the students came from outside the United States.

   There's an old house three quarters of the way up that mountain.

2. (countable) A quarter is a unit of money worth 25 cents in the United States and Canada.

   Can you give me four quarters for this dollar?

3. (countable) A quarter is a period of three months, especially in business.

   Sales were down 3.7 percent from the fourth quarter of last year.

4. (countable) A quarter is one of four a periods of time, especially in sports.

   He threw four touchdown passes in the fourth quarter leading to a 38-28 win.

5. (countable) A quarter is one section of a city.

   The bar was in New Orleans' French quarter.

6. (plural only) Quarters are the places where people live.

   After training, we returned to our quarters to get changed.

• 
  Four quarters of a circle
• 
  An American quarter

Synonyms

• period

Related words

• quarterly
• headquarters

Verb

Plain form quarter

Third-person singular quarters

Past tense quartered

Past participle quartered

Present participle quartering

1. (transitive) If you quarter something, you make it into four equal pieces.

   Using a sharp knife, quarter the apple.

2. (transitive) If you quarter somebody somewhere, you give them a place to stay.

   We were quartered in Vienna during the job.