Question 1 · Quick check
quarry
CEFRB2
/ˈkwɒɹ.i/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A place where stone or sand is dug from the ground.
- 02
noun
An animal being hunted or pursued.
Examples
There is a rock quarry just north of town.
There's a rock quarry ten miles west of town.
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsTo extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
More examples
In contextMichelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.
They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
A window towards the eaſt (whoſe fractured quarries proclaimed the ravages of time) admitted a dim, ſhadowy light, over the whole manſion.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“to square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).