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QUARTERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Housing available for people to live in
Example:
I visited his bachelor quarters
Synonyms:
living quarters; quarters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("quarters" is a kind of...):
housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)
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 "quarters"):
accommodation (living quarters provided for public convenience)
diggings; digs; domiciliation; lodgings; pad (temporary living quarters)
dorm; dormitory; hall; residence hall; student residence (a college or university building containing living quarters for students)
fo'c'sle; forecastle (living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed)
hareem; harem; seraglio; serail (living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household)
military quarters (living quarters for personnel on a military post)
Derivation:
quarter (provide housing for (military personnel))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb quarter
Context examples:
Holmes and I had taken things for the night, and found comfortable quarters at the Bull. Finally we set out in the company of the detective on our visit to Wisteria Lodge.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Henrietta remained with Louisa; but all the rest of the family were again in their usual quarters.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Two hours and three quarters will carry us to Woodston, I suppose; we shall be in the carriage by ten; so, about a quarter before one on Wednesday, you may look for us.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
My thanks are due in three quarters.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Using data from almost one billion stars, the researchers created a 3-D map of interstellar dust reddening across three quarters of the visible sky.
(All we are is dust in the interstellar wind, NSF)
Round she came, till she was broadside on to me—round still till she had covered a half and then two thirds and then three quarters of the distance that separated us.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
If that be the case, said the ass, we had better change our quarters, for our lodging is not the best in the world!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
On March 24, the new moon in Aries four degrees will appear and bring you a chance to improve your home or living quarters.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It has strong, moderately bent, muscular quarters.
(Cocker Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
