quarter
/ˈk(w)oɹ.tɚ/ adjective C2- Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
- Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (¹⁄₄, 25%). · a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound
- Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year. · A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.· A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.
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He arrayed himself in the regalia of millionaires and presidents; he took himself to the quarter where life is brightest and showiest, and there dined with taste and luxury.
The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass.
Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde’s Hollow.
And it’s a quarter to three.
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