quarter
verb/ˈkwɔːtə(r)/
/ˈkwɔːrtər/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they quarter | /ˈkwɔːtə(r)/ /ˈkwɔːrtər/ |
| he / she / it quarters | /ˈkwɔːtəz/ /ˈkwɔːrtərz/ |
| past simple quartered | /ˈkwɔːtəd/ /ˈkwɔːrtərd/ |
| past participle quartered | /ˈkwɔːtəd/ /ˈkwɔːrtərd/ |
| -ing form quartering | /ˈkwɔːtərɪŋ/ /ˈkwɔːrtərɪŋ/ |
- quarter something to cut or divide something into four parts
- She peeled and quartered an apple.
- quarter somebody (+ adv./prep.) (formal) to provide somebody with a place to eat and sleep
- The soldiers were quartered in the town.
divide into 4
provide rooms
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French quartier, from Latin quartarius ‘fourth part of a measure’, from quartus ‘fourth’, from quattuor ‘four’.
Idioms
See quarter in the Oxford Advanced American DictionaryCheck pronunciation:
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