quarterite

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noun

An inhabitant of a particular quarter.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounquarterite (plural quarterites)

plural quarterites

  1. An inhabitant of a particular quarter.

    At Bourbon, Ignatius turned and began walking up toward Canal through the night's parade of tourists and Quarterites, among whom he did not look particularly strange.

    1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN
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    The word that Ambrose Gring, formerly a quarterite and, according to the latest papers, one of the picture bandits, had died and that murder was suspected had permeated every nook of Montparnasse.

    1939, Elliot Paul, The Mysterious Mickey Finn, Dover, published 2014, page 101

Origin

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APA

quarterite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarterite

MLA

“quarterite.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarterite. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quarterite,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarterite.

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