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MILITARY QUARTERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Living quarters for personnel on a military post
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("military quarters" is a kind of...):
living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military quarters"):
barrack (a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel)
bivouac; camp; cantonment; encampment (temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers)
gun room (military quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship)
wardroom (military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain))
Holonyms ("military quarters" is a part of...):
military post; post (military installation at which a body of troops is stationed)
