QUARTER


Meaning of QUARTER in English

n. 25B6; noun

the Latin quarter : DISTRICT, area, region, part, side, neighbourhood, precinct, locality, sector, zone; ghetto, community, enclave.

help from an unexpected quarter : SOURCE, direction, place, location; person.

the servants' quarters : ACCOMMODATION, lodgings, rooms, chambers; home; informal pad, digs; formal abode, residence, domicile.

the riot squads gave no quarter : MERCY, leniency, clemency, lenity, compassion, pity, charity, sympathy, tolerance.

25B6; verb

they were quartered in a villa : ACCOMMODATE, house, board, lodge, put up, take in, install, shelter; Military billet.

I quartered the streets : PATROL, range over, tour, reconnoitre, traverse, survey, scout; Brit. informal recce.

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