quarter
/ˈk(w)oːtə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem."
- "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."
- "And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...]."
- "The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data."
Etymology
From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: quarter, quartarius
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈk(w)oːtə/
- British English: /ˈk(w)ɔːtə/