quarterly
- noun
- /ˈkwɔrtərli/
- Specialized
- I just got a rejection letter from The Virginia Quarterly.
- Research Quarterly
- Disability Quarterly
- Georgia Historical Quarterly
Examples
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Well, I cannot file the quarterlies until I have your log.
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The man who wrote the article you did for The Scientific Quarterly, July 12th...
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And send that along to me along with the last two quarterly reports.
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I picked up a quarterly that lay on the table next to me.
Fiction book (2000) -
This is from our quarterly major alumni magazine for the Institute.
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From the Spring issue of the Indiana Review, a quarterly published by Indiana University.
Fiction book (1994) -
I was one of Engineering Quarterly's "30 Under 30."
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We've got Les Robinson from the "Critical Quarterly."
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From the premiere issue of DoubleTake, a quarterly published by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
Fiction book (1995) -
The journal features scholarly articles in its quarterly issues, published every three months.
Synonyms
A printed or online magazine that comes out regularly
A magazine published every three months
Compounds
- Specialized
A payment a company makes to people who own its shares every three months
How Often
- Literature
- Literature
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
quarterly = quarterly (semi-transparent) = quarter + ly
The noun is formed by conversion from the adjective 'quarterly'; the connection is clear, but the meaning as a periodical is a conventionalized nominal use rather than a fully productive rule.
Etymology
Quarterly comes from quarter, meaning 'one of four'. A quarterly is a magazine or journal that appears each 'one of four' parts of the year, so it is published four times a year.