quarters

Noun

• housing available for people to live in
  • "he found quarters for his family"
  • "I visited his bachelor quarters"
• one of four equal parts
• a district of a city having some distinguishing character
• (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
• a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
• one of four periods into which the school year is divided
• a fourth part of a year; three months
• one of the four major division of the compass
• a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
• a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
• a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
  • "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"
• an unspecified person
• the rear part of a ship
• piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
• clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
• plural of quarter.
• Housing, barracks, or other habitation or living space.
• The place where someone or something lives.
• A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
• Quarterfinals.

Verb

• provide housing for (military personnel)
• pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
• divide into quarters
• divide by four; divide into quarters
• third-person singular simple present indicative of quarter

Synonyms

after part, billet, canton, draw, draw and quarter, fourth, fourth part, living quarters, one-fourth, one-quarter, poop, quarter, quartern, stern, tail, twenty-five percent