Usually means: Disagreement or argument between people.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarrel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quarrel, quarrel, quarrel, quarrel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quarrel, quarrel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quarrel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quarrel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quarrel, quarrel: Wordnik
  7. quarrel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quarrel: Wiktionary
  9. quarrel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quarrel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quarrel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Quarrel, quarrel: Dictionary.com
  13. quarrel (1), quarrel (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quarrel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quarrel (James Bond), Quarrel (projectile), Quarrel (video game), Quarrel, The Quarrel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quarrel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quarrel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quarrel: Rhymezone
  19. quarrel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quarrel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Quarrel, Quarrel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. quarrel: Free Dictionary
  23. quarrel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. quarrel: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. quarrel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. quarrel: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quarrel: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. quarrel: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quarrel: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See quarreled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
noun:  (countable) Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
noun:  (rare, uncountable) A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
verb:  (intransitive, also figuratively) To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
verb:  (intransitive) To find fault; to cavil.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) Followed by at: to disagree with; to take offence.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete except Scotland) To argue or squabble with (someone).
noun:  (countable, archery, historical) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
noun:  (countable, architecture) A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
noun:  (countable, Northern England, architecture) A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
noun:  (countable, obsolete, rare) A cutting tool or chisel with a diamond- or square-shaped end.
noun:  (countable, architecture, obsolete) A small square-shaped opening in window tracery.

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