quartern

1. 1.

   one of four equal parts

   “a quarter of a pound”

   Synonymsone-fourthfourthone-quarterquarterfourth parttwenty-five percent

   Broadercommon fraction

Other forms of quartern

plural

quarterns·

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 quartern

What does quartern mean?

quartern means "one of four equal parts".

How many syllables are in quartern?

quartern has 2 syllables: quar-tern. The stress falls on "quar".

What is another word for quartern?

Close synonyms include one-fourth, fourth, one-quarter, quarter, fourth part. 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 quartern a common word?

quartern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.