quarrel
an angry dispute
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,317 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,491 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- an angry dispute also: wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup they had a quarrelthey had words
- an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges
verb
- have a disagreement over something also: dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate We quarreled over the question as to who discovered AmericaThese two fellows are always scrapping over something
quarrel in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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They meet together in order to quarrel.
The Velvet Glove · Henry Seton Merriman · Chapter 1
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I could not quarrel with Augustus, the whole situation was so impossible.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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Oh! my dears, I hope you will never have a family quarrel among you!
The Two Sides of the Shield · Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge · Chapter 1
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Then we laughed ourselves out of a most disgraceful quarrel, and approached more peaceably whatever remained to be done.
The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction · 20-66 Petronius Arbiter · Chapter 1
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He says the original trouble which led to the lynching was a quarrel between Biscoe and a white man about a debt.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1