Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to quarter
Participle: quartered
Gerund: quartering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | quarter |
| you | quarter |
| he;she;it | quarters |
| we | quarter |
| you | quarter |
| they | quarter |
Perfect
| I | have quartered |
| you | have quartered |
| he;she;it | has quartered |
| we | have quartered |
| you | have quartered |
| they | have quartered |
Past
| I | quartered |
| you | quartered |
| he;she;it | quartered |
| we | quartered |
| you | quartered |
| they | quartered |
Pluperfect
| I | had quartered |
| you | had quartered |
| he;she;it | had quartered |
| we | had quartered |
| you | had quartered |
| they | had quartered |
Future
| I | will quarter |
| you | will quarter |
| he;she;it | will quarter |
| we | will quarter |
| you | will quarter |
| they | will quarter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have quartered |
| you | will have quartered |
| he;she;it | will have quartered |
| we | will have quartered |
| you | will have quartered |
| they | will have quartered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | quarter |
| you | quarter |
| he;she;it | quarter |
| we | quarter |
| you | quarter |
| they | quarter |
Perfect
| I | have quartered |
| you | have quartered |
| he;she;it | have quartered |
| we | have quartered |
| you | have quartered |
| they | have quartered |
Imperfect
| I | quartered |
| you | quartered |
| he;she;it | quartered |
| we | quartered |
| you | quartered |
| they | quartered |
Pluperfect
| I | had quartered |
| you | had quartered |
| he;she;it | had quartered |
| we | had quartered |
| you | had quartered |
| they | had quartered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would quarter |
| you | would quarter |
| he;she;it | would quarter |
| we | would quarter |
| you | would quarter |
| they | would quarter |
Perfect
| I | would have quartered |
| you | would have quartered |
| he;she;it | would have quartered |
| we | would have quartered |
| you | would have quartered |
| they | would have quartered |
Imperative
| you | quarter |
| we | Let's quarter |
| you | quarter |
Verbs conjugated like 'quarter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'quarter'
quartter,
barter,
charter,
garter,
quander,
quarrel,
quaver,
quitter,
æquate,
alter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to have a temporary residence
- sojourn
- to stay somewhere temporarily
- keep, sleep over, sojourn, stay, stay over, stop, stop off, stop over, tarry
- lodge
- house, assign, establish, locate, post, place, situate
- divide
- quadrisect, section, cleave, sever, cut
Antonyms
- divide
- combine, connect, attach, couple
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, "one-fourth of anything," from O.Fr. quartier (12c.), from L. quartarius "fourth part," from quartus "fourth" (see quart). Earliest sense is "parts of the body as dismembered during execution" (1297). Used of the moon from c.1400 and the hour from 1599. The coin is peculiar to U.S., first recorded 1783. Meaning "region, locality" is from c.1300. Meaning "portion of a town" (identified by the class or race of people who live there) is first attested 1526. The verb meaning "to cut in quarters" is recorded from c.1430. Quarter days (1480), when rents were paid and contracts and leases began or expired, were, in England, Lady day (March 25), Midsummer day (June 24), Michaelmas day (Sept. 29), and Christmas day (Dec. 25); in Scotland, keeping closer to the pagan Celtic calendar, they were Candlemas (Feb. 2), Whitsunday (May 15), Lammas (Aug. 1), and Martinmas (Nov. 11). Quarter horse, bred strong for racing on quarter-mile tracks, first recorded 1834; quarterback (n.) in U.S. football is from 1879; the verb is first attested 1945. Monday morning quarterback originally was pro football player slang for sportswriters, attested from 1932.
2. From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.
Sample Sentences
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Quarter the horses in the third stable.
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I thought that I might as well quarter myself on you for a couple of days. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
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But there is, as in other woods, a great deal of difference between this and the quartered timber. [1758, Thomas Hale, A Compleat Body Of Husbandry, page 333:]
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It [the Central London Railway] assumed a modest and entirely heraldic device, quartering the arms of the City of London, the parishes of St. George's, Holborn (St. George and the dragon) and St. Marylebone (the Virgin and Child between two lilies […]), and the county of Middlesex, surmounted by the dragon's wing from the City's crest. [1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 382:]