Spanish word
cuarto
/ˈkwaɾto/
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- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 656 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- room
- fourth (in a series)
- quarter-hour (one of four equal divisions of an hour)
- watch (one of the four approximately equal divisions of the night, especially for shifts of watchmen)
- watch (one of the four equal divisions of soldiers, guards, police, &c. for routine patrols)
- English or American quart (a unit of liquid measure equal to ¹⁄₄ galón, equivalent to about 0.95 L)
- cuarto, quarter-sack (a traditional unit of dry measure equal to ¹⁄₄ saco, equivalent to about 27.8 L)
- quarter (one of the four main divisions of the body of quadrapeds and birds)
- quarter (one of the four main divisions of the body of criminals for public display)
- quarter (one of four main pieces of cloth used to tailor a garment)
- quarter (one of the four main phases of a heavenly body as it waxes and wanes in the sky)
- line, lineage (any of the four main lines of ancestry through one's various grandparents)
- synonym of sala (“room”)
- bedroom(room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping)
- fourth(person or thing in the fourth position)
- quarter(one of four equal parts — see also one-fourth)
- trick(sailor's spell of work at the helm)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)