Definitions
divide by four; divide into quarters
Word origin
From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.
Used in a sentence
“I ate a quarter of the pizza.”
“A majority of companies in the S&P 500 have at least one woman on their boards, but only about a quarter have more than two, according to a study from PwC.”
“One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“One fourth”7 letters
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