Definitions for QUARTERS
quar·ters

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. living quarters, quartersnoun

   housing available for people to live in

   "he found quarters for his family"; "I visited his bachelor quarters"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. quartersnoun

   Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.

2. quartersnoun

   A commonly played university drinking game in North America.

3. quartersnoun

   quarterfinals

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1. quarters

   Quarters generally refer to one of four equal parts that a whole is divided into. This term can be used in various contexts such as: 1. In terms of time, it can be used to describe a three-month period in a fiscal or calendar year. 2. In a residential context, it can mean rooms or lodging. 3. In sports, it can refer to one of four periods of time into which a game is divided. 4. As a coin in the United States and Canada, it refers to a quarter dollar, worth 25 cents. 5. In terms of anatomy, it could refer to the rear part of an animal's body.

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1. Quarters

   Quarters is a drinking game which involves players bouncing a quarter off a table in an attempt to have the quarter land in a certain place, usually into a shotglass on that table. It is also played in South America, where its called "monedita", Spanish for little coin. The player bouncing the quarter is referred to as the "shooter." In some variations the glass is empty and each player has a separate glass to drink from, while in other variations the glass that the shooter is aiming for contains an alcoholic beverage. The quarter is customarily bounced on the face whether heads or tails. Some games may allow a player to bounce the quarter on the edge, particularly by rolling it down their nose.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. quarters

   The several stations where the officers and crew of a ship of war are posted in time of action. (See BATTLE, ENGAGEMENT, &c.) But this term differs in the army, for the soldier's quarters are his place of rest. (See HEAD-QUARTERS, WINTER-QUARTERS, &c.)

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. quarters

   In military affairs, are, generally, the positions assigned to persons or bodies of men. In a more special sense, the quarters in the army are the places of lodging assigned to officers or men when not actually on duty.

2. quarters

   The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. QUARTERS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Quarters is ranked #154907 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Quarters surname appeared 105 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Quarters.
   
   90.4% or 95 total occurrences were White.
   5.7% or 6 total occurrences were Black.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'QUARTERS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2546

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How to pronounce QUARTERS?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say QUARTERS in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of QUARTERS in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of QUARTERS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of QUARTERS in a Sentence

1. Keith Creel:

   We have seen in the last three quarters of 2015 economic headwinds across all business segments except for a couple of bright spots in forest products and Canadian grain.

2. Greg Lipper:

   Even the best run, most humane, most medically up to date jail is a giant petri dish. You have lots and lots of people living in close quarters. Social distancing is virtually impossible, most jails, especially city jails, have a lot of people going in and out. DC is no different.

3. Dave Goulson:

   Three quarters of our crops depend on insect pollinators. Crops will begin to fail. We won't have things like strawberries, we can't feed 7.5 billion people without insects.

4. Michael Waltz:

   In the 1970s, three quarters of the Congress, both Republican and Democrat, House and Senate, were vets, 75%. Today, we're sitting around 15%. It's a record low in our nation's history, and I'm convinced that it is a big part of the explanation why we have a record amount of dysfunction.

5. Atlantic Equities analyst James Cordwell:

   If the Chinese consumer is pulling back on spending then it seems to be either at the very high luxury end or maybe on some of the everyday non-essential items, i think the smartphone is increasingly viewed as an essential in Greater China. So, I don't see the economy weighing significantly on Apple growth over the next few quarters.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=QUARTERS
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Quarters
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=QUARTERS
5. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=QUARTERS
6. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=QUARTERS