housing available for people to live in
"he found quarters for his family"
"I visited his bachelor quarters"
plural of quarter.
"The soldiers moved into their new quarters after the long journey across the desert."
Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
In plain English: Quarters are four equal parts that make up something whole, like slices of a pizza cut into four pieces.
"The hotel offers single, double, and triple quarters with shared bathrooms."
Usage: Use quarters to refer specifically to military housing, temporary lodging, or the collective living arrangements of a group rather than individual rooms. This term is distinct from cuarto, which denotes a single room in Spanish-speaking contexts.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quarter
"She quarters her troops in the abandoned warehouse every night."
In plain English: To quarters means to divide something into four equal parts.
"The explorers eventually had to quarter themselves in the abandoned mine for safety during the storm."