• (RP) IPA: /ˈk(w)ɔːtə/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.tɚ/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈkoː.tɘ/

quarter (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
2. (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (frac 1, 25%).

   a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound

3. (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.

   A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.

   A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.

• quadruple

quarter

1. Any fourth of something, particularly:
   1. A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
   2. (now primarily, financial) A quarter of the year, 3 months; a season.
   3. (historical) The quarter-ton or tun, divided into 8 bushels, the medieval English unit of volume and weight named by the Magna Carta as the basis for measures of wine, ale, and grain
   4. (historical) The quarter-yard, divided into 4 nails, an obsolete English unit of length long used in the cloth trade
   5. (historical) The watch: A quarter of the night, nominally 3 hours but varying over the year.
      • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark 6:48

        And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...].

   6. (heraldiccharge) A charge occupying a fourth of a coat of arms, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
   7. (basketball, American football) A period into which a game is divided. qf between 8 and 15 minutes according to the rules.
   8. quarterfinal
2. Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly:
   1. A division or section of a town or other area, whether or not it constituted a fourth of the whole.
   2. (usually, in the plural) A living place, from which:
      1. (military slang, now rare) A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant.
      2. (uncountable, obsolete except in phrase no quarter) Amity, friendship, concord; (now) accommodation given to a defeated opponent, mercy.
         • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 2, scene 3]:

           In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom.

   3. The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
   4. (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.

• (one of four equal parts) fourth, fourth part, ¼
• (period of three consecutive months) trimester, cour
• (section of a town) district; ward; neighborhood; ghetto (pejorative); borough (New York City); capitoulate (Toulouse, historical)

• quart

• French: quart, quartier
• German: Viertel
• Italian: quarto
• Portuguese: quarto, quarta parte
• Russian: че́тверть
• Spanish: cuarto, cuartel

• German: Vierteldollar
• Portuguese: moeda de vinte e cinco centavos
• Russian: четверта́к
• Spanish: (El Salvador) cora, (Panama) cuarto

• French: trimestre
• German: Quartal, Vierteljahr
• Italian: trimestre
• Portuguese: trimestre
• Russian: кварта́л
• Spanish: trimestre

• French: quartier
• German: Stadtteil, Viertel, (Cologne) Veedel, Quartier, Kiez
• Italian: quartiere
• Portuguese: quarteirão
• Russian: кварта́л
• Spanish: cuartel

• French: quartier

quarter (quarters, present participle quartering; past and past participle quartered)

1. (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
2. (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.

   Quarter the horses in the third stable.

3. (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
4. (transitive) To quartersaw.

• (to have a temporary residence) stay over, stop; See also Thesaurus:sojourn

• quadruple (multiply by four)

• German: vierteln, vierteilen
• Spanish: cuartear

• German: quartieren, einquartieren, unterbringen, aufnehmen

quarter (quarters, present participle quartering; past and past participle quartered)

1. (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.