Meaning of "quarter day" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF QUARTER DAY

quarter day

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUARTER DAY

Quarter day is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES QUARTER DAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quarter days

In British and Irish tradition, the quarter days were the four dates in each year on which servants were hired, school terms started, and rents were due. They fell on four religious festivals roughly three months apart and close to the two solstices and two equinoxes. The significance of quarter days is now limited, although leasehold payments and rents for land and premises in England are often still due on the old English quarter days. The quarter days have been observed at least since the Middle Ages, and they ensured that debts and unresolved lawsuits were not allowed to linger on. Accounts had to be settled, a reckoning had to be made and publicly recorded on the quarter days.

Definition of quarter day in the English dictionary

The definition of quarter day in the dictionary is any of four days in the year when certain payments become due. In England, Wales, and Northern Ireland these are Lady Day, Midsummer's Day, Michaelmas, and Christmas. In Scotland they are Candlemas, Whit Sunday, Lammas, and Martinmas.

TRANSLATION OF QUARTER DAY

Find out the translation of quarter day to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of quarter day from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quarter day» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 季天
• Translator English - Spanish: día del trimestre
• English: quarter day
• Translator English - Hindi: तिमाही दिन
• Translator English - Arabic: اليوم الربع
• Translator English - Russian: четверть день
• Translator English - Portuguese: dia trimestre
• Translator English - Bengali: চতুর্থাংশ দিন
• Translator English - French: quart de jour
• Translator English - Malay: Suku hari
• Translator English - German: Quartalstag
• Translator English - Japanese: 四半期の一日
• Translator English - Korean: 분기 일
• Translator English - Javanese: Saben dinten
• Translator English - Vietnamese: ba tháng một lần
• Translator English - Tamil: காலாண்டில் நாள்
• Translator English - Marathi: चौथ्या दिवशी
• Translator English - Turkish: üç aylık ödeme günü
• Translator English - Italian: quarto giorno
• Translator English - Polish: kwartał dzień
• Translator English - Ukrainian: чверть день
• Translator English - Romanian: zi trimestru
• Translator English - Greek: τρίμηνο ημέρα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kwartaal dag
• Translator English - Swedish: fjärdedel dag
• Translator English - Norwegian: kvartal dagen

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUARTER DAY»

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Household Words: A Weekly Journal

Perhaps Quarter-day has a smile in store for the " articled pupil." Little, dark-eyed, laughing Fanny Mauprat, who talks French like a Frenchwoman, and is never still except when she is waltzing or playing the pianoforte, is musing over a similar ...

Charles Dickens, 1852

Time, the avenger

As if one could possibly do without money till quarter-day, if quarter-day is so far off. — As if people's lives were to be regulated by quarter-day. Quarter-day! As if one didn't want money at some times, and did want it at other times. Quarter-day !

Anne Marsh-Caldwell, 1853

Time, the avenger: By the author of "Emilia Wyndham", the ...

Where isit all gone?” “ A question nottobe asked as to the where, for it is onel hold myself excused from answering ; but as to the what, it is spent, that's all.” “ Very well,—when quarter-day comes again, you will have some more.” “ Quarter- day !

Anne Caldwell Marsh, 1851

The Original Methodists' record

QUARTER DAY MEETINGS are held in March, June, September, and December. A quarter day meeting is composed of preachers, leaders, general and society stewards, and such other persons as the quarter day may choose to admit.

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Designing Flexible Cash Flows

and an acceptance of the fact that we do not actually need the following quarter day in all cases. To getHLOOKUP to return the date of the next quarteryou need toincrease your date by just enough to make sure thatthe adjusted date that you ...

Scott Fawcett, 2013

Time, the avenger, by the author of 'Emilia Wyndham'.

"Very well, — when quarter-day comes again, you will have some more." k " Quarter-day !" contemptuously ; " what is quarter-day ?" " According to most people, the day that marks the beginning of a new quarter of a year, I believe," said he ...

Anne Marsh- Caldwell, 1851

Time Measurement and Calendar Construction

A quarter day in England. 1st May. Mayday (old Celtic name Beltane), a rural holiday. One of the old quarter days of Scotland. 24th June. Nativity of John the Baptist. An English quarter day. 1st August. Lammas day, feast of first fruits. An old ...

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Bede, The Reckoning of Time

THE MOON ALSO HAS ITS QUARTER-DAY While we are on the subject, the computist should remember that the lunation of the month of February has 29 days in the other years, but in leap year is counted as 30 [days long], whether it ...

Saint Bede (the Venerable), Faith Wallis, 1999

The Inspector, and Literary Review

Thy splendour's dimmed ! throughout that very town Where flatteries swelled thy breast, thou' It gaiu a frown, And those thy bounty fed, decry thy fame, And strive who first thy venial faults shall name." What a luckless time, is quarter day to the ...

‎1826

The political songster: or, A touch on the times, on various ...

The time draws nigh, my Sons prepare, To honour Quarter Day. At stated times, the think to raise, The Landlord trips away ; The Tenant is not ready soys, Too soon comes Quarter Day. — • A Tho' Iron-masters backs are stout, They can't abide ...

‎1790

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUARTER DAY»

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Crossing Quarters: Would the Real Astronomical Midway Point …

The cycle of four cross quarter days and four quarter (two solstices and two ... other three cross quarter holidays on our modern calendar are: Groundhog Day ... «Universe Today, Apr 15»

Crossing into August-- a cross-quarter day

Cross-quarter days are the approximate midpoints between the solstices and the equinoxes. These days were celebrated in the pagan and Celtic calendars. «ChicagoNow, Jul 14»

Halloween derived from ancient Celtic cross-quarter day

A cross-quarter day is a day more or less midway between an equinox (when the sun sets due west) and ... Halloween is the fourth cross-quarter day of the year. «EarthSky, Oct 11»