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quadrivial

[ kwo-driv-ee-uhl ]

adjective

  1. having four ways or roads meeting in a point.
  2. (of ways or roads) leading in four directions.
  3. of or relating to the quadrivium.


quadrivial

/ °ì·Éɒˈ»å°ùɪ±¹ÉªÉ™±ô /

adjective

  1. having or consisting of four roads meeting at a point
  2. (of roads or ways) going in four directions
  3. of or relating to the quadrivium
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quadrivial1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin ±ç³Ü²¹»å°ù¾±±¹¾±Äå±ô¾±²õ, equivalent to Late Latin quadrivi ( um ) quadrivium + -Äå±ô¾±²õ -al 1
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Example Sentences

Some quadrivial neighborhoods included in the survey are Germantown, Gaithersburg and Lorton.

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Residents in quadrivial neighborhoods are more educated than the general population, with two-thirds holding at least a bachelor’s degree.

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The “Diversity in the D.C. Area†report surveyed residents who lived in one of two types of neighborhoods: “Quadrivial†neighborhoods where white, Asian, black and Latino residents each make up at least 10 percent of the population — and no group constitutes a majority — and neighborhoods where Latinos make up at least 25 percent of residents.

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It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs—a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travellers.

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It would have had its trivial and its quadrivial schools; its occupation would have been research, experiment, or investigation; in a word, its whole features would have been colored by a grammatical, a rhetorical, or a mathematical cast, accordingly as it should have been derived from a sect in which any one of these three characteristics was the predominating influence.

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