MILITARY QUARTERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military quarters mean? 

• MILITARY QUARTERS (noun)
  The noun MILITARY QUARTERS has 1 sense:

1. living quarters for personnel on a military post

  Familiarity information: MILITARY QUARTERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY QUARTERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Living quarters for personnel on a military post

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("military quarters" is a kind of...):

living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military quarters"):

barrack (a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel)

bivouac; camp; cantonment; encampment (temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers)

gun room (military quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship)

wardroom (military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain))

Holonyms ("military quarters" is a part of...):

military post; post (military installation at which a body of troops is stationed)