quadrangle

IPA: kwɑdrˈæŋgʌɫ

(geometry) A geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon.
A courtyard which is quadrangular.
The buildings forming the border of such a courtyard.

Examples of "quadrangle" in Sentences

A walk around the quadrangle is not uninteresting.
The fourth side of the quadrangle was the public road.
On the fourth side of the quadrangle was a rough coach-house, and rougher stables.
The quadrangle is more than 100 feet square, and the walls are more than 100 feet high.
Then at the back of the quadrangle was the store, perhaps of all the buildings the most important.
The quadrangle is a sort of sky-roofed hall, to which there is convenient access from all parts of the house.
I remember we had three kids that streaked across the, what we call the quadrangle, the open area in the middle of the campus.
For example, if it be a false affirmation to say a quadrangle is round, the word round quadrangle signifies nothing, but is a mere sound.
The facades on the buildings that conform the quadrangle are adorned with elaborate representations of Mayan huts, rectangles and Chac masks, with superimposed ornaments such as carved loops, lattices, small columns, human shapes, birds and monkeys.