quarter of
Noun
Meaning
quarter of (uncountable)
(dated) Synonym of quarter to; fifteen minutes before a certain hour.
"It's 2:30 now; let's meet in 15 minutes." "Okay, see you at quarter of."
Examples
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.
Overseas, a cow a quarter of kopeck, but a rouble to ship.
Overseas, a cow costs a quarter of kopeck, but it will cost a rouble to ship it here.
A Quarter of an hour is worth more than a thousand gold coins.