nouncuarteles

• A military barracks in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.

  ‘‘Pasaporte,’ demands the sour-faced officer at the cuartel’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The next day, upon returning to the cuartel in Yaviza, I find that the police have inexplicably changed their minds.’
  • ‘Leaving the cuartel, I walk to the Yaviza waterfront.’
  • ‘The pilot flew the plane to the army cuartel at La Maya, and dropped two homemade napalm bombs.’
  • ‘Charles Rhodes of the Sixth Cavalry, accompanied by two orderlies, came across twenty armed insurgents in a cuartel.’
  • ‘Don Alejandro had drawn his sword as soon as he had run in the cuartel, ready for anything.’

  Synonyms

  garrison, camp, encampment, depot, billet, quarters, fort, cantonment, guardhouse