What does the word quadrangle mean?

    Part of speech: noun

  • Quadrangular.

  • Part of speech: noun

  • A plane figure having four sides and four angles; a court so shaped.

  • Part of speech: adverb

  • Quadranglely.

Usage examples for quadrangle

  1. But he had hardly crossed half of that stony quadrangle when a window burst open above him and a head was thrust out, shouting. – The Ball and The Cross by G.K. Chesterton
  2. He will start up at the first sound and rush across the open quadrangle- Lord knows if he would wait to put on his dressing- gown- to get the key from me. – Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  3. This quiet little quadrangle is one of the prettiest nooks of old Rouen, and I am fortunate enough to be able to show in the drawing on p. – The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook