quarter — OET

quarter

noun

1 the Latin quarter of Paris:

district, area, region, part, side, neighbourhood, precinct, locality, sector, section, zone, tract, belt;

ghetto, community, colony;

pocket, enclave, territory, province, parish, ward.

2 help came from an unexpected quarter:

source, direction, place, point, spot, location;

person.

3 (quarters) rooms that had once been servants' quarters:

accommodation, lodgings, rooms, chambers, place of residence, home, shelter;

French pied-à-terre;

British, informal digs;

informal , dated pad, billet;

formal abode, dwelling, dwelling place, residence, domicile, habitation.

4 he gave no quarter to rivals:

mercy, leniency, clemency, lenity, compassion, pity, charity, forbearance, indulgence, kindness, sympathy, tolerance.

verb

1 they were quartered in a sumptuous villa:

accommodate, house, board, lodge, give accommodation to, provide with accommodation, put up, take in, give a bed to, install, give a roof to, put a roof over someone's head, shelter;

informal , dated billet.

2 I started to quarter the streets, eyes peeled for the car:

patrol, range over, tour, reconnoitre, traverse, survey, inspect, spy out, scout;

British, informal recce.

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