quadrangle

Examples

• All

• Those assembled in this beautiful quadrangle will not join again as a whole until graduation.

  Stanford

• The place was a dusty quadrangle that had once been a football field.

  Fiction book (1994)

• All those going to town, report to the quadrangle in five minutes.

  Evilspeak (1981)

• The first time I ever saw you, running across the quadrangle, your hair flying.

  The Children's Hour (1961)

• We were in public, out on the quadrangle right after graduation.

  Fiction book (1991)

• We lined up separately in the quadrangle to march into class, meals, chapel, and study hall.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Vista Retirement Center was laid out in a quadrangle.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The Stratton Military School for Boys is a quadrangle surrounded by low buildings, surrounded by a stone wall, surrounded by the mountains of north-central Pennsylvania.

  Fiction book (1992)

• We passed through the central quadrangle, a hectare of tailored green surrounded by six stories of stacked balconies.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Students often gather to study in the peaceful quadrangle surrounded by ancient buildings.

Synonyms

C

courtyard

vsquadrangle

108 2.2

An open area inside buildings, often like the space in a house or castle

is the rectangular school version rather than general enclosed spaces

Q

quad

vsquadrangle

27 3.8

An open rectangular area at a school or university with buildings around it

is the same idea but is the school rectangular form not any open area

C

court

vsquadrangle

23 2.7

An open area surrounded by buildings or walls, often inside a larger building

is the four-sided school layout rather than any enclosed area

How Big

plaza

96 2.7

quadrangle

3 6.7

courtyard

108 2.2

yard

773 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology