quarter meaning
EN
[ˈkwɔːtə] [ˈk(w)ɔ(ɹ)ɾɚ] [-ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)] 
US WQuarter
- A quarter is one fourth, 1⁄4, 25% or 0.25 and may refer to:
- Quarter (urban subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
- Quarter section, an area of one-fourth of a square mile, or 160 acres (0.65 km2)
- Quarter (United States coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar
- Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar
- Quarter of a calendar year
- Academic quarter (year division), a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks
- Academic quarter (class timing), term used by universities in various European countries for the 15 minutes between the defined start time for a lecture and the actual time it will start
FR quarter 
- NounPLquartersPREquarter-SUF-ter
- Any fourth of something, particularly.
- One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn [i.e., grain] to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more.
- And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...].
- Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly.
- Tietjens said: ‘Send the Canadian sergeant-major to me at the double….’ to the quarter.
- In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom.
- ...at last she kicked right over the carriage pole and fell down, after giving me a severe blow on my near quarter.
- Any fourth of something, particularly.
- VerbSGquartersPRquarteringPT, PPquartered
- (transitive) To divide into quarters.
- (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- Quarter the horses in the third stable.
- (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- (transitive) To quartersaw.
- (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.
- Every creature that met us would rely on us for quartering — De Quincey.
- (transitive) To divide into quarters.
- Adjective
- Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
- (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).
- (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
- Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The archbishop made the "proclamacion on the iiij quarters of the scaffolde, seyend in this wyse: Sirs, heere comyth Henry, kyng Henryes sone the Vth, on whose sowle God have mercy, Amen.
- "Fellow Democrats," he began, "I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning [ …] ."
- Wal-Mart Canada opened seven new supercentres during the quarter and converted 10 discount stores into the new format.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The 5G development project will ramp up in the first quarter.
- Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
- We'll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of quarter in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
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- Intransitive verbs
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- Intransitive verbs
- Adjectives
- fr quarter
- en quarters
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- en quartermaster
- en quarterly
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "quarter" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.