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quarter is a noun and verb meaning "one of four equal parts". It carries 18 recorded senses.
one of four equal parts
“a quarter of a pound”
a district of a city having some distinguishing character
“the Latin Quarter”
(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
“both teams scored in the first quarter”
football · professional basketball
one of four periods into which the school year is divided
“the fall quarter ends at Christmas”
one of the four major division of the compass
“the wind is coming from that quarter”
a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
United Kingdom
a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
“he fed four quarters into the slot machine”
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
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for quarter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.