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LAST QUARTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does last quarter mean?
• LAST QUARTER (noun)
The noun LAST QUARTER has 1 sense:
1. the last fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth
Familiarity information: LAST QUARTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The last fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("last quarter" is a kind of...):
half-moon (the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated)
Context examples
What else was it possible to infer from what you said, you unkind creature, when you know as well as I do, that on his account only last quarter I wouldn't buy myself a new parasol, though that old green one is frayed the whole way up, and the fringe is perfectly mangy?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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