quarters

Speech parts

1. quarters - Noun

2. quarters - Verb

Meaning

housing available for people to live in

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

living quarters lodge canton ouse kip house barrack penny flinders skybox Quonset hut area place times home
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Antonyms

school private office wing dispute ban
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Hypernyms

housing lodging living accommodations

Hyponyms

hall harem accommodation pad dormitory forecastle

Phrases with the word

come to close quarters three-quarters of a century general quarters college quarters collegian's quarters close-quarters combat

Examples

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. Gioachino Rossini

Love is three quarters curiosity. Giacomo Casanova

Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs - and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information. Henry Mintzberg

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. Simone Weil

Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow. Vitruvius

We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops. Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Close letter words and terms

quarterpenny quarterpipe quarterpounder quartersaw quarterstaff quarterstaves