QUARTERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quarters mean? 

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

1. housing available for people to live in

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARTERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Housing available for people to live in

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

living quarters; quarters

Context example:

I visited his bachelor quarters

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

housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

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

accommodation (living quarters provided for public convenience)

diggings; digs; domiciliation; lodgings; pad (temporary living quarters)

dorm; dormitory; hall; residence hall; student residence (a college or university building containing living quarters for students)

fo'c'sle; forecastle (living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed)

hareem; harem; seraglio; serail (living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household)

military quarters (living quarters for personnel on a military post)

Derivation:

quarter (provide housing for (military personnel))

 Context examples 

The Old Soldier was in permanent quarters under the Doctor's roof.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You’ll come down to Crawley and see me at my training quarters, will you not?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet it would be well to shoot the bolt in yonder door when one is in strange quarters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How will you have me, full length or three-quarters, on my head or my heels?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I at his request had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street.

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

There was a church-clock down at Woking which struck the quarters, and I thought more than once that it had stopped.

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

How long they seemed, those quarters!

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

Approximately three-quarters of SCID infants who received transplants survived for at least five years.

(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)

I sat three-quarters of an hour in the flower-garden, while Fanny cut the roses; and very pleasant it was, I assure you, but very hot.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Maybe you are come to a place that will not prove much to your taste, but you will not be consulted as to your quarters, I promise you.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)