| Noun | 1. | quarter - one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound" | |
| 2. | quarter - a district of a city having some distinguishing character; "the Latin Quarter"ghetto - formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto" casbah, kasbah - an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located medina - the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa barrio - a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States) | |
| 3. | quarter - one of four periods of play into which some games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter" | |
| 4. | quarter - a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter after 4 o'clock"60 minutes, hour, hr - a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour" | |
| 5. | quarter - one of four periods into which the school year is divided; "the fall quarter ends at Christmas" | |
| 6. | quarter - a fourth part of a year; three months; "unemployment fell during the last quarter"period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | |
| 7. | quarter - one of the four major division of the compass; "the wind is coming from that quarter"orientation - position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions | |
| 8. | quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)lb, pound - 16 ounces; "he tried to lift 100 pounds" stone - an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone" | |
| 9. | quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)bushel - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | |
| 10. | quarter - a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"coin - a metal piece (usually a disc) used as money | |
| 11. | quarter - an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in the right quarter" | |
| 12. | quarter - the rear part of a shipescutcheon - (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed back, rear - the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight skeg - a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost | |
| 13. | quarter - piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vampupper - piece of leather that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole | |
| Verb | 1. | quarter - provide housing for (military personnel)lodge, accommodate - provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester" | |
| 2. | quarter - pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him; "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" | |
| 3. | quarter - divide into quarters; "quarter an apple"section, segment - divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word" | |
| 4. | quarter - divide by four; divide into quartersarithmetic - the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations | |