adj
Meaning 1
Marked with squares.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
quadrille
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/kwɒdˈɹɪl/
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noun
Meaning 2
A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 3
The music for this dance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 4
A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
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Topics: card-games, games
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noun
Meaning 5
A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
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noun
Meaning 6
Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
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noun
Meaning 7
A square tiling of the plane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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verb
Meaning 8
To dance the quadrille.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 9
a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: square dance, square dancing
Narrower terms: lancers
noun
Meaning 10
music for dancing the quadrille
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dance music
History
Etymology
From French quadrillé (“crosshatched”, adjective).
French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.
Term used by John Horton Conway.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кадрил (kadril) — dance
- Catalan: quadrilla — dance
- Chinese Mandarin: 方阵舞 — dance
- Czech: čtverylka — dance
- Esperanto: kvadrilo — dance
- Estonian: kadrill — dance
- French: quadrille — dance
- Georgian: კადრილი (ḳadrili) — dance
- German: Quadrille — dance
- Greek: καντρίλια (kantrília) — dance
- Greek: καδρίλια (kadrília) — dance
- Ido: quadrilo — dance
- Italian: quadriglia — dance
- Polish: kadryl — dance
- Portuguese: quadrilha — dance
- Russian: кадри́ль (kadrílʹ) — dance
- Spanish: cuadrilla — dance
- Swedish: kadrilj — dance
- Turkish: kadril — dance