quarterly

Other forms of quarterly

plural

quarterlies·

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.

Questions about quarterly

What does quarterly mean?

quarterly means "in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quarterly?

quarterly has 3 syllables: quar-ter-ly. The stress falls on "quar". In IPA it is /ˈkwɔɹtɚli/.

What is another word for quarterly?

Close synonyms include every quarter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quarterly a common word?

quarterly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.