Usually means: One-fourth of a whole.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quarter, quarter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quarter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quarter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quarter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quarter, quarter: Wordnik
  7. quarter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quarter, quarter-: Wiktionary
  9. quarter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quarter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quarter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. quarter, quarter (q1, q2, q3, q4): Dictionary.com
  13. quarter (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quarter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quarter (Canadian coin), Quarter (U.S. coin), Quarter (United States coin), Quarter (country subdivision), Quarter (disambiguation), Quarter (heraldry), Quarter (time), Quarter (unit), Quarter (urban subdivision), Quarter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quarter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quarter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quarter: Rhymezone
  19. quarter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quarter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Quarter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. quarter: Free Dictionary
  23. quarter: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. quarter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. quarter: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. quarter: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. quarter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Quarter: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Quarter: Investopedia
  5. quarter: Legal dictionary
  6. Quarter (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4), quarter: Financial dictionary
  7. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarter: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Quarter (weight), quarter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. quarter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quarter: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quarter: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarter, quarter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Quarter: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. quarter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quarter: Dan's Poker
  2. Quarter: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  2. QUARTER: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. Quarter: Coin Collecting
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See quartered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A fourth part of something.
noun:  (in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
noun:  A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
noun:  (historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
noun:  (now historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
noun:  (now chiefly financial) A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
noun:  (time) A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A fourth part of a hundredweight.
noun:  (heraldry) A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
noun:  (Canada, US) A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
noun:  (sports) One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
noun:  (Chester, historical) A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
noun:  Place or position.
noun:  A region or place.
noun:  Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
noun:  A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
noun:  One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
noun:  (figurative, archaic) A topic or area of endeavour.
noun:  (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
noun:  (farriery) The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
noun:  (often plural) A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
noun:  (obsolete) Relations between people.
noun:  Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
noun:  Short forms.
noun:  (now rare, rugby, American football) A quarterback.
noun:  (military slang, now rare) A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant.
noun:  A quarterfinal.
adjective:  Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
adjective:  (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (¹⁄₄, 25%).
adjective:  (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
verb:  (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
verb:  (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
verb:  (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
verb:  (transitive) To quartersaw.
verb:  (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
verb:  (heraldry) To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
verb:  (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.
noun:  A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7251).

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