quarters
Where soldiers sleep
Quarters are living accommodations, especially for military personnel or servants: officers' quarters, servants' quarters.
The word implies assigned or provided housing rather than chosen residence.
At close quarters means in tight proximity, often implying combat or confrontation.
Separately, quarters is the plural of quarter—four of them make a whole, or a dollar.
Sleeping space on transport
- cabinSimple wooden dwelling
- stateroomPrivate cabin aboard ship
- bunkNonsense or stacked bed
- hammockHanging fabric bed
wardroom · forecastle · fo'c'sle · steerage · below decks · berthing · mess · galley
Soldiers' residential building
- dormitoryStudent living building
- bunkhouseCommunal sleeping building
- accommodationsPlaces providing temporary residence
- billetTemporary military quarters
Element twenty-eight, or coin
mint · silver · cents · vending · slot · parking meter · laundromat · arcade
Merciful treatment of offenders
One-quarter portions
- quadrantsFour equal divisions
- halvesEqual portions of whole
- thirdsOne of three parts
- fractionsParts expressed numerically
partitioning · sections · segments · splitting · slicing · portioning · allocation · apportionment
berth
Sleeping space on transport
hammock · wardroom · forecastle · fo'c'sle · steerage · below decks · berthing · mess · galley
barracks
Soldiers' residential building
- dormitoryStudent living building
- bunkhouseCommunal sleeping building
- accommodationsPlaces providing temporary residence
billet · garrison · base housing · enlisted · military housing
nickel
Element twenty-eight, or coin
currency · mint · silver · cents · vending · slot · parking meter · laundromat · arcade · toll
clemency
Merciful treatment of offenders
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- reprievePostponement of punishment
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
captive · prisoner · spare · warfare · combat · enemy · victor
fourths
One-quarter portions
fractions · partitioning · sections · segments · splitting · slicing · portioning · allocation · apportionment · cutting
- coinspennies, leu, silver eagles, nickels, ban
- coinage and related mattersminting, coins, currency, mint, pennies
- game timinghalftime, overtime, stoppage time, injury time, periods
- laundromatwasher, washers, dryer, dryers, washing machines
- small dwellingstiny house, tiny home, tiny homes, tiny houses, micro apartment
- foursfour elements, four directions, four corners, four suits, four horsemen
quartershomelessness
Lacking permanent residence
displacement · eviction · outdoors · unsheltered · office
quartersno quarter
Denial of surrender
mercilessness · no mercy · slaughter · massacre · execution
- Monday-morning quarterbackOne who criticizes past decisions
- three quartersThree of four portions
- close quartersRestricted space, minimal distance
- first quarterMoon half-visible, growing
- one quarterSingle part of four
- tight quartersVery limited space
quarter, quarterly, quartered, quarterback, quartering, quartermaster, quarterfinal, quarterdeck, quartermasters