geometry A plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon:
— You can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides.

synonym: foursquare.

Roget 212: verticality; erectness etc. adj.; perpendicularity etc. 216.1; right angle, normal; azimuth circle.    wall, precipice, cliff.    elevation, erection; square, plumb line, plummet.    ... show more

Roget 95: quaternity^†, four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion, square, quarter.    [planar form with four sides] tetract^†, tetragon, quadrangle, rectangle.    [three dimensional object with four surfaces] tetrahedron.    quadrature, quadrifoil, quadriform, quadruplet; quatrefoil.    [object or animal with four legs] tetrapod.    [geographical area with four sides] quadrangle, quad [Coll.].    [electromagnetic object] quadrupole.    [four fundamental studies] quadrivium.    ... show more

Roget 189: abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat, lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance^†, tabernacle, throne, ark.    home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall^†; fireside; hearth, hearth stone; chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side; harem, seraglio, zenana^†; household gods, lares et penates [Lat.], roof, household, housing, dulce domum [Lat.], paternal domicile; native soil, native land.    habitat, range, stamping ground; haunt, hangout; biosphere; environment, ecological niche.    nest, nidus, snuggery^†; arbor, bower, etc. 191; lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum [Lat.], aerie, eyrie, eyry^†, rookery, hive; covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah^†.    bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation^†; barrack, casemate^†, casern^†.    tent etc. (covering) 223; building etc. (construction) 161; chamber etc. (receptacle) 191; xenodochium^†.    tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft^†.    cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy^†, shanty, dugout [U.S.], wigwam; pen etc. (inclosure) 232; barn, bawn^†; kennel, sty, doghold^†, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary^†, columbarium; shippen^†; igloo, iglu^†, jacal^†; lacustrine dwelling^†, lacuslake dwelling^†, lacuspile dwelling^†; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang [Slang], tepee, topek^†.    house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe [Lat.], folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa [Sp.], country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple etc. 1000.    hamlet, village, thorp^†, dorp^†, ham, kraal; borough, burgh, town, city, capital, metropolis; suburb; province, country; county town, county seat; courthouse [U.S.]; ghetto.    street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda^†, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd [Scot.], close [Scot.], yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.    square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market place, place, plaza.    anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor.    quarter, parish etc. (region) 181.    assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow^†, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house [U.S.], cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop^†, dive [U.S.], exchange [Euph.]; grill room, saloon [U.S.], shebeen^†; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet^†, posada^†; almshouse^†, poorhouse, townhouse [U.S.].    garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance^†, demesne.    [quarters for animals] cage, terrarium, doghouse; pen, aviary; barn, stall; zoo.    ... show more

Roget 244: angularity, angularness^†; aduncity^†; angle, cusp, bend; fold etc. 258; notch etc. 257; fork, bifurcation.    elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo^†, akimbo.    corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel [Arch.], coign^†.    right angle etc. (perpendicular) 216.1, 212; obliquity etc. 217; angle of 45 degrees, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle.    angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity; trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry^†; clinometer, graphometer^†, goniometer; theodolite; sextant, quadrant; dichotomy.    triangle, trigon^†, wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond; rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon^†, decagon.    pyramid, cone.    Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.    ... show more

Roget 182: place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook etc. (corner) 244; hole; pigeonhole etc. (receptacle) 191; compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode etc. 189; locality etc. (situation) 183.    ins and outs; every hole and corner.    ... show more

Dutch: carré, vierkant
Polish: kwadrat

The product of two equal terms:
— Gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.

synonym: second power.

Dutch: carré
Polish: kwadrat

An open area at the meeting of two or more streets.

synonym: public square.

Dutch: tweede macht, hekje, plaza, plaats, plein

Something approximating the shape of a square.

Dutch: plein

Someone who doesn't understand what is going on.

synonym: lame.

Polish: lama

A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views.

synonym: square toes.

Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles.

A hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles.

Dutch: winkelhaak
Polish: kątownik

Make square:
— Square the circle.
— Square the wood with a file.

synonym: square up.

Roget 95: reduce to a square, square.   

Roget 720: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib^†, justle^†, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer^†; fight etc. (war) 722; wrangle etc. (quarrel) 713.    contend with &c., grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush etc. n.. with, tilt with; encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw^†, run a tilt at; oppose etc. 708; reluct.    join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms; etc. (warfare) 722.    lay about one; break the peace.    compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie^†, emulate, rival; run a race; contend for &c., stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make a point of.    ... show more

Roget 23: be accordant etc. adj.; agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match etc. 17; become one; homologate^†.    consent etc. (assent) 488.    render accordant etc. adj.; fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate; adjust etc. (render equal) 27; dress, regulate, readjust; accord, harmonize, reconcile; fadge^†, dovetail, square.    ... show more

Roget 30: make compensation; compensate, compense^†; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance^†, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize etc. 27; make good; redeem etc. (atone) 952.    ... show more

Raise to the second power.

Dutch: kwadrateren, kwadreren

Cause to match, as of ideas or acts.

Position so as to be square.

Be compatible with.

Pay someone and settle a debt.

Turn the paddle; in canoeing.

synonym: feather.

Turn the oar, while rowing.

synonym: feather.

Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle.

Roget 95: four; quaternary, quaternal^†; quadratic; quartile; tetract^†, tetractic^†, tetractinal^†; tetrad, tetragonal; square, quadrate.   

Roget 244: angular, bent, crooked, aduncous^†, uncinated^†, aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform^†, falcated^†; furcated^†, forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular^†; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo^†, geniculated^†; oblique etc. 217.    fusiform [Micro.], wedge-shaped, cuneiform; cuneate^†, multangular^†, oxygonal^†; triangular, trigonal^†, trilateral; quadrangular, quadrilateral; foursquare; rectangular, square, multilateral; polygonal etc. n.; cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.    ... show more

Roget 924: having a right to etc. v.; entitled to; claiming; deserving, meriting, worthy of.    privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised.    prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible^†, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct.    due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved.    allowable etc. (permitted) 760; lawful, licit, legitimate, legal; legalized etc. (law) 963.    square, unexceptionable, right; equitable etc. 922; due, en r gle; fit, fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r gles [Fr.].    ... show more

Polish: kwadratowy

Characterized by honesty and fairness:
— A square deal.

synonym: straight.

Providing abundant nourishment:
— Four square meals a day.

synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial.

Leaving no balance.

Without evasion or compromise:
— A square contradiction.

synonyms: straight, straightforward.

Roget 939: upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious etc. 543; virtuous etc. 944; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white [U.S.].    constant, constant as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole; marble-constant" [Antony and Cleopatra]; true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible.    straightforward etc. (ingenuous) 703; frank, candid, open-hearted.    conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled, high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike^†.    inviolable, inviolate; unviolated^†, unbroken, unbetrayed; unbought, unbribed^†.    innocent etc. 946; pure, stainless; unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured^†; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved^†, undebauched^†; integer vitae scelerisque purus [Lat.] [Horace]; justus et tenax propositi [Lat.] [Horace]. chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche [Fr.]; high-spirited.    supramundane^†, unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous^†.    ... show more

Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned.

synonym: straight.

In a straight direct way:
— Looked him squarely in the eye.
— Ran square into me.

synonym: squarely.

In a square shape:
— A squarely cut piece of paper.
— Folded the sheet of paper square.

synonym: squarely.

Firmly and solidly:
— Hit the ball squarely.
— The bat met the ball squarely.
— Planted his great bulk square before his enemy.

synonym: squarely.