QUADRANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quadrangle mean? 

• QUADRANGLE (noun)
  The noun QUADRANGLE has 2 senses:

1. a four-sided polygon

2. a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings

  Familiarity information: QUADRANGLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUADRANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A four-sided polygon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

quadrangle; quadrilateral; tetragon

Hypernyms ("quadrangle" is a kind of...):

polygon; polygonal shape (a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quadrangle"):

parallelogram (a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length)

trapezium (a quadrilateral with no parallel sides)

trapezoid (a quadrilateral with two parallel sides)

Derivation:

quadrangular (of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

quad; quadrangle

Hypernyms ("quadrangle" is a kind of...):

area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)

Derivation:

quadrangular (of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle)

 Context examples 

Now, Mr. Soames, we will take a walk in the quadrangle, if you please.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The whole building enclosed a large court; and two sides of the quadrangle, rich in Gothic ornaments, stood forward for admiration.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The castle was theirs, and the roaring flames were spurting through the windows and flickering high above the turrets on two sides of the quadrangle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When we were out in the darkness of the quadrangle, we again looked up at the windows.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With the walls of the kitchen ended all the antiquity of the abbey; the fourth side of the quadrangle having, on account of its decaying state, been removed by the general's father, and the present erected in its place.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

On one side it had a range of doors, and it was lighted on the other by windows which Catherine had only time to discover looked into a quadrangle, before Miss Tilney led the way into a chamber, and scarcely staying to hope she would find it comfortable, left her with an anxious entreaty that she would make as little alteration as possible in her dress.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The side of the quadrangle, in which she supposed the guilty scene to be acting, being, according to her belief, just opposite her own, it struck her that, if judiciously watched, some rays of light from the general's lamp might glimmer through the lower windows, as he passed to the prison of his wife; and, twice before she stepped into bed, she stole gently from her room to the corresponding window in the gallery, to see if it appeared; but all abroad was dark, and it must yet be too early.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)