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FIRST QUARTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does first quarter mean?
• FIRST QUARTER (noun)
The noun FIRST QUARTER has 1 sense:
1. the first fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth
Familiarity information: FIRST QUARTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("first quarter" is a kind of...):
half-moon (the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated)
Context examples
My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She knew a family near Maple Grove who had tried it, and been obliged to separate before the end of the first quarter.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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