OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1427

square

/skwɛə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuadrado
Shaped like a square (the polygon).
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the…
cuadrado
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
A floor that measures 4 feet square has an area of 16 square feet.
square mile
aguacatado • anticuado • cuadrado • cuadriculado • momio • zanahorio
Socially conventional; boring.
It was a square town, but that didn't bother me. I knew I didn't have to live a square life.
The square Johns lie more than the in-guys do.
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