Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quarter day

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English

Syllables: quar-ter -day
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.

Example Sentences

"[T]he money was deposited in the hands of the mortgager, who, in the hearing of the lender, laid strong injunctions on his steward to pay the interest punctually at quarter-day."
"The effect was that the line from Trades Lane to Carolina Port became part of the joint railway, as from Whitsunday, 1904. This date, of course, was the Scottish quarter day (May 15) and not the movable ecclesiastica festival."

Inflected Forms

quarter days (plural) quarter-day (alternative)

Phrases

quarterly court

Frequently Paired Words

quarterly quarterly court

Questions

What does quarter day mean?: Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.

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