court

nounfeminine/ˈkwa.dɾɐ/medium

qua·dra

Definitions

1A delimited and prepared space for the practice of certain sports.

The new school has a covered basketball court.

The players are already on the court for warm-up.

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Common collocations

sports courttennis courtbasketball courtmulti-sport court

2A stanza of four lines, common in Portuguese popular poetry.

The song is composed of several quatrains.

He wrote a beautiful quatrain about the sea.

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Common collocations

poetic quatrainpopular quatrain

Do latim 'quadra' ('espaço quadrado, pátio').