QUARTERLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quarterly mean? 

• QUARTERLY (noun)
  The noun QUARTERLY has 1 sense:

1. a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year)

  Familiarity information: QUARTERLY used as a noun is very rare.

• QUARTERLY (adjective)
  The adjective QUARTERLY has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or consisting of a quarter

  Familiarity information: QUARTERLY used as an adjective is very rare.

• QUARTERLY (adverb)
  The adverb QUARTERLY has 2 senses:

1. in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon

2. in three month intervals

  Familiarity information: QUARTERLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARTERLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

serial; serial publication; series (a periodical that appears at scheduled times)

• QUARTERLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or consisting of a quarter

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

quarterly report

Pertainym:

quarter (a fourth part of a year; three months)

Derivation:

quarter (a fourth part of a year; three months)

• QUARTERLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon

Context example:

two coats of arms borne quarterly

Sense 2

Meaning:

In three month intervals

Synonyms:

every quarter; quarterly

Context example:

interest is compounded quarterly

Pertainym:

quarterly (of or relating to or consisting of a quarter)

 Context examples 

John was busy that month and left the bills to her, the next month he was absent, but the third he had a grand quarterly settling up, and Meg never forgot it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was at this time that he wrote letters of inquiry to the several great monthly and quarterly reviews, and learned in reply that they rarely considered unsolicited articles, and that most of their contents were written upon order by well-known specialists who were authorities in their various fields.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Meg gave all her quarterly salary toward the rent, and I only got some clothes with mine, so I felt wicked, and was bound to have some money, if I sold the nose off my face to get it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)