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

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

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. Black Elk:

   Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

2. Johannes Kleiman:

   ‘On the fourth of August 1944 the SD (Nazi security police), accompanied by three detectives and SS Officer Silberbauer, conducted a raid. They had apparently been well-informed, and forced my colleague with three guns pointed at him to show them the secret quarters, where they arrested both families: eight people. My colleague and myself were also taken away with them.’

3. Human Services Secretary Alex Azar:

   I would encourage any individual who is elderly or is medically fragile to think long and hard about going into any large gathering that would involve close quarters and potential spread.

4. Fitch Solutions:

   Slowing industrial output will create significant headwinds for Mexican growth over the coming quarters.

5. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:

   We have met them three quarters of the way, they need to meet us one quarter of the way.

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