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Definition: Quartern |
QuarternNoun1. One of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quartern" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1765. (references) |
Synonyms: QuarternSynonyms: fourth (n), fourth part (n), one-fourth (n), quarter (n), twenty-five percent (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Quadrisection | Noun: quadrisection, quadripartition; quartering; v; fourth; quart; quarter, quartern; farthing (i.e. fourthing); quadrant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Quartern |
| Specialty definitions using "quartern": ALL NATIONS ♦ Feed of Corn ♦ Go of Gin. (references) |
| "Quartern" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Quartern" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "quartern": quartern loaf. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "quartern": half-quartern. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "quartern"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | çerek pinte, çerek (quarter, quarter of an hour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хляб от четири фунта, мярка за тегло. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τέταρτο μέτρου, τέταρτο άρτου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | negyed pint. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kerroo (fourth, haunch, leg, leg of lamb, quarte, quarter, quarterland, quatrain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arternquay onça (jaguar, jaguaro, ounce). (various references) четверть листа, четверть пинты (noggin). (various references) četvrtina pinte, četvrtina (quarter, quarto). (various references) cuarta parte (quarter), barra de pan de cuatro libras. (various references) kvart (crash pad, fourth, pad, quarter, quarter of an hour). (various references) dört librelik somun, ölçeğin dörtte biri, çeyrek ölçek. (various references) чверть (quarter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quartern": quarterns. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "quartern" (pronounced 'Quar"tern'): Altern, Cistern, Cittern, Flittern, martern, Pastern, Pottern, Vultern, Yestern, Zittern. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-q-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: quarter. | |
-2 letters: errant, nature, quarte, quatre, ranter, return, turner. | |
-3 letters: antre, quant, quare, quart, quate, quean, quern, rater, reran, rerun, tarre, terra, tranq, truer, tuner, urare, urate. | |
-4 letters: ante, aunt, earn, etna, near, neat, rant, rare, rate, rear, rent, ruer, rune, runt, tare, tarn, tear, tern, true, tuna, tune, turn, urea. | |
-5 letters: ane, ant, are. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-q-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: quarterns. | |
+2 letters: quartering, quaternary, tranquiler. | |
+3 letters: hindquarter, quarterings, quartersawn, tranquiller. | |
+4 letters: hindquarters, quarterfinal, quaternaries, tranquilizer. | |
+5 letters: quarterfinals, tranquilizers, tranquillizer. | |
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