What does QUARTERS mean?
Definitions for QUARTERS
quar·ters
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word QUARTERS.
Princeton's WordNet
living quarters, quartersnoun
housing available for people to live in
"he found quarters for his family"; "I visited his bachelor quarters"
Wiktionary
quartersnoun
Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
quartersnoun
A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
quartersnoun
quarterfinals
ChatGPT
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.
Wikidata
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 Terms
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 Gazetteer
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.
quarters
The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'QUARTERS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2546
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of QUARTERS in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of QUARTERS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of QUARTERS in a Sentence
It is too early to say if it is a blockbuster or not. We will find out over the coming quarters.
I do think they are potentially at risk because you're in close quarters and sometimes you can't escape if somebody is really near you and the train is packed.
Somebody pays for that loan forgiveness, and that is the three-quarters of Americans who don't have bachelor's degrees themselves.
You can go outside and move around a bit if it's warm, but your whole life happens inside in winter and that makes living in such close quarters even more depressing.
Tehran is eagerly poised to attract foreign investment and gain access to modern technologies in the whole energy chain, potential for investment in Iran is huge, three quarters of its combined oil and gas reserves - the third largest in the world - are yet to be produced.
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Translations for QUARTERS
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- acuartelamientoSpanish
- vertrekkenDutch
- quartosPortuguese
- чвертіUkrainian
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