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By meaning 2
to divide into quarters; to divide by four:
to provide housing:

Examples

141 sentences

  1. It's quarter to eight now.

    Зараз чверть на восьму. — deniko

    ruСейчас без четверти восемь. — marafon

    deEs ist jetzt Viertel vor acht. — Manfredo

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  2. It's about a quarter mile from here.

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  3. Three-quarters of the work was finished.

    ruТри четверти работы были позади. — odexed

    deDrei viertel der Arbeit war getan. — dinkel_girl

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Meaning

8 senses

  1. (transitive)To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

    vierteln, vierteilen

    divide by four; divide into quarters

  2. (transitive)To provide housing for (usually military personnel or equipment).

    Quarter the horses in the third stable.

    quartieren, einquartieren, unterbringen

    provide housing for (military personnel)

  3. (intransitive)To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

More meanings 5

  1. (transitive)To quartersaw.

  2. (historical, transitive)To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.

  3. To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.

  4. (transitive)To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.

  5. (obsolete)To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

Origin

From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartu

From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.

Borrowed from French cartayer.

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Forms

quarters, quartering, quartered, quartered

irregular

Base formquarter · to quarter
3rd person singularquarters
Present participlequartering
Past simplequartered
Past participlequartered

Tenses

quarter · quartered · will quarter · have quartered

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyquarter
he, she, itquarters

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave quartered
he, she, ithas quartered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill quarter

Past simpleLesson

all personsquartered

Synonyms

5 synonyms
To lodge:stay over
Close in meaning
  • provide housing for (military personnel):billetcanton
  • pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to their extremities, so as to execute them:drawdraw and quarter

Antonyms

1 antonyms
quadruple

Word family

3 related words
Relatedrequarterquartersquartering

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
quartquarterbackquarterly

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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