cuarto

adjective

1. numeral, ordinal fourth

noun, masculine

1. fourth (in a series)
2. quarter-hour (one of four equal divisions of an hour)
3. historical watch (one of the four approximately equal divisions of the night, especially for shifts of watchmen)
4. watch (one of the four equal divisions of soldiers, guards, police, &c. for routine patrols)
5. English or American quart (a unit of liquid measure equal to ¹⁄₄ galón, equivalent to about 0.95 L)
6. historical cuarto, quarter-sack (a traditional unit of dry measure equal to ¹⁄₄ saco, equivalent to about 27.8 L)
7. quarter (one of the four main divisions of the body of quadrapeds and birds)
8. historical quarter (one of the four main divisions of the body of criminals for public display)
9. quarter (one of four main pieces of cloth used to tailor a garment)
10. quarter (one of the four main phases of a heavenly body as it waxes and wanes in the sky)
11. line, lineage (any of the four main lines of ancestry through one's various grandparents)
12. synonym of sala (“room”)
13. synonym of habitación (“bedroom”)
14. synonym of piso (“apartment”)
15. watch, shift (the time that a soldier, guard, police, etc. spends on patrol)
16. lot (a piece of real estate, especially one of the divisions of a large piece of land being put to sale)
17. service (particularly to a king or queen)
18. in plural well-proportioned limbs (especially in discussion of art and horses)
19. historical cuarto (a former copper Spanish coin)
20. Andalusia, Dominican Republic, in plural, slang synonym of dinero (“money”)
21. in plural, slang synonym of dinero (“a fortune”)