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Definition of Quarters
1. Noun. Housing available for people to live in. "I visited his bachelor quarters"
Specialized synonyms: Accommodation, Diggings, Digs, Domiciliation, Lodgings, Pad, Dorm, Dormitory, Hall, Residence Hall, Student Residence, Fo'c'sle, Forecastle, Hareem, Harem, Seraglio, Serail, Military Quarters
Generic synonyms: Housing, Living Accommodations, Lodging
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Derivative terms: Quarter
Definition of Quarters
1. Noun. (plural of quarter) ¹
2. Noun. (pluralonly) (military) Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto. ¹
3. Noun. A commonly played university drinking game in North America. ¹
4. Noun. quarterfinals ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quarters
1. quarter [v] - See also: quarter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarters
Literary usage of Quarters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"The body was enlarged, two and one-half inches broad, one inch and three-quarters
in antero- posterior diameter, and six inches and three-quarters in ..."
2. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"I stood on the beach while the brig got under way, and watched her until she
rounded the point, and then went to the hide-house to take up my quarters for a ..."
3. The Life of William Shakespeare: Including Many Particulars Respecting the by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1848)
"Thomas Lemster with hym iij. quarters. Mr. Parsons malte viij. quarters, wheate ij.
quarters d. ... Jhon Page in hys howse iij. quarters, barley j. quarter. ..."
4. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Dugald Stewart (1843)
"Taking, for illustration, the three cases, of ten ' quarters, ... 1, and two
quarters for dose No. 2, ' making together six quarters for the whole. ..."
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