Quarters is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUARTERS in dictionary:

VERB:
• QUARTER, to divide into four parts
• divide into four equal or corresponding parts
• cut (the body of an executed person) into four parts
• cut (a log) into quarters, and these into planks so as to show the grain well.
• be stationed or lodged in a specified place
• impose someone on (another person) as a lodger
• range over or traverse (an area) in every direction
• move at an angle; go in a diagonal or zigzag direction
• divide (a shield) into four or more parts by vertical and horizontal lines.
• display (different coats of arms) in quarters of a shield, especially to show arms inherited from heiresses who have married into the bearer's family
PLURAL NOUN:
• accommodation, esp as provided for military personnel
NOUN:
• each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided
• a period of fifteen minutes or a point of time marking the transition from one fifteen-minute period to the next
• a coin representing 25 cents, a quarter of a US or Canadian dollar.
• one fourth of a lunar month.
• (in basketball, American football, and Australian Rules) each of four equal periods into which a game is divided
• one of four terms into which a school or university year may be divided.
• one fourth of a pound weight (avoirdupois, equal to 4 ounces).
• one fourth of a hundredweight (in the UK 28 lb or in the US 25lb).
• a grain measure equivalent to 8 bushels.
• the haunches or hindquarters of a horse
• a part of a town or city having a particular character or use
• the direction of one of the points of the compass, especially as a direction from which the wind blows.
• a particular but unspecified person, group of people, or area
• either side of a ship aft of the beam
• rooms or lodgings, especially those allocated to people in military or domestic service
• each of four or more roughly equal divisions of a shield separated by vertical and horizontal lines.
• a square charge which covers the top left (dexter chief) quarter of the field.
• housing available for people to live in
• a period of three months regarded as one fourth of a year, used especially in reference to financial transactions such as the payment of bills or a company's earnings
• each of the four parts into which an animal's or bird's carcass may be divided, each including a leg or wing.
• pity or mercy shown towards an enemy or opponent who is in one's power
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to divide into four equal parts

Words related to QUARTERS

quarter16 quartered19 quartering20

Words that contain QUARTERS

quartersaw22 outquarters20 quartersawn23 quartersaws23 forequarters24 headquarters25 hindquarters25 quartersawed25 quarterstaff27 quartersawing26 quarterstaffs28 quarterstaves25

How to use QUARTERS in a sentence

• Then he arose and walked slowly to his quarters, and I saw him no more that night.
• The bustle and drive in the trading quarters of the city is very great.
• It was whispered in certain quarters that the affliction was not produced by natural causes.
• All the same I think there was some disappointment in certain quarters, including the gilded cage itself, that this momentous question should be disposed of without debate.
• May might invite him to her table, as she had before, he dressed carefully, despite his inconvenient quarters.
• If chased, they spring from the hind quarters, darting about here and there, and affording great amusement to the pursuers.
• One Sunday, about noon, they went to find a hat which they had lost the day before at the spot where they had been working, three quarters of a mile from the house.
• The native quarters of the large cities are dreadful places, especially for young foreigners.
• The streets of the native quarters of Indian cities are filled with naked babies and children.
• From a dozen quarters of the city columns of smoke by day and pillars of fire by night rose against the sky.
• A mutual understanding having been arrived at, the two parties joined together and began to establish Winter Quarters suitable for the whole.
• I have been very glad to read in my papers from home that free art exhibitions have been occasionally opened in the poor quarters of our cities.
• Elsa has scarcely time to reply in passionate vindication of her love, when the King and Lohengrin approach from the Pallas, the quarters of the knights.
• In certain quarters they marvel at the progress made in the last thirty years.
• Ian Deal took up his quarters across the river with the cavalry.
• Encouraged by this success, the rebels returned and took up their quarters in Southwark.
• The hunter decided to try to get to closer quarters where he could use his spear on the body of the beast.
• He curved about and rose to see them and the northern quarters.
• It was on the hill that Donald first met with the bocan, but he soon came to closer quarters, and haunted the house in a most annoying fashion.
• His quarters rang with continued fits of coughing, and he seemed to enjoy hearing it.
• Having effectually fatigued ourselves in examining the objects I have just described, we retired to our quarters.
• Philip now perceived that he must decide the matter in the field, and collect his strength about him from all quarters.
• After a brief parley he dismounted, and with five of his men, strode across the lawn to the negro quarters.
• Early in the summer, Beethoven left his quarters in the theatre and went into the country nearby, where he could work with more freedom than in the city.
• It is a formula which, in one form or another, has received apparently enthusiastic approval in many quarters, even from distinguished physicians.
• On the 27th of February the enemy took up their quarters about a mile distant from the house.
• But in other quarters they could not so quickly effect a remedy.
• It will be observed that no affection of the eyes is mentioned in the record of his treatment in quarters.
• The paper was marked off into quarters, and opposite quarters were painted black so that it would be easy to sight, from a distance, the exact center of the target.

Similar words containing QUARTER without suffix s

quarter16 quartern17 quartered19 quarterer18 quarterly21 quarterns18 quarterage20 quarterers19 quartering20 quarteroon19 quartersaw22 biquarterly25 forequarter23 headquarter24 hindquarter24 outquarters20 quarterages21 quarterback28 quarterdeck27 quarterings21 quarterlies20 quarterlife23 quarteroons20 quartersawn23 quartersaws23 forequarters24 headquarters25 hindquarters25 quarterbacks29 quarterdecks28 quarterfinal24 quarterlight25 quartersawed25 quarterstaff27 headquartered27 quarterbacked31 quarterdecker29 quarterfinals25 quarterlights26 quartermaster24 quartersawing26 quarterstaffs28 quarterstaves25 headquartering28 quarterbacking32 quarterdeckers30 quartermasters25 quarterbackings33 quarterfinalist27 quartermistress26 quarterfinalists28

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