Latin Quarter
noun
The district of Paris on the south bank of the Seine where the main university buildings are situated, associated with writers and artists: the opera is set in the Latin Quarter in Paris in 1830...
- Saturday night I went to a dance at the Astor Hotel, then went to the Latin Quarter—boy, are they some places.
- Every day there were hundreds of students who gathered in the Latin Quarter with flying squads.
- Act 2 is set on Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter.
Origin
Mid 19th century: translation of French quartier latin (alluding to the fact that Latin was spoken in the university during the Middle Ages).
- magmatically
- magmatism
- magmatist
- magna assisa eligenda
- Magna Carta
- magna cum laude
- Magnaflux
- Magna Graecia
- magnalium
- magna mater
- magnanerie
- magnanery
- magnanimity
- magnanimous
- magnanimously
- magnanimousness
- magna precaria
- magnascope
- magnate
- magnecrystallic
- magneplane
- magnesia
- magnesia cement
- magnesian
- magnesian limestone