# quarter

quarter is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
 quarter

## Noun

 Singular quarter
1. (countable) A quarter is one fourth $(1/4)$ of something.
The lake was about a quarter mile from town.
About a quarter of the students came from outside the United States.
There's an old house three quarters of the way up that mountain.
2. (countable) A quarter is a unit of money worth 25 cents in the United States and Canada.
Can you give me four quarters for this dollar?
3. (countable) A quarter is a period of three months, especially in business.
Sales were down 3.7 percent from the fourth quarter of last year.
4. (countable) A quarter is one of four a periods of time, especially in sports.
He threw four touchdown passes in the fourth quarter leading to a 38-28 win.
5. (countable) A quarters is one section of a city.
The bar was in New Orleans' French quarter.
6. (plural only; not used in singular form) Quarters are the places where people live.
After training, we returned to quarters to get changed and rest.

## Verb

 Plain form quarter Third-person singular quarters Past tense quartered Past participle quartered Present participle quartering
1. (transitive) If you quarter something, you make it into four equal pieces.
Using a sharp knife, quarter the apple.
2. (transitive) If you quarter somebody somewhere, you give them a place to stay.
We were quartered in Vienna during the job.