• quire — the area of a church where the choir sits, also known as the choir. See also cathedral architecture and compare nave.
• quire — a measure of paper. A quire is a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper of the same size and quality. It might also be thought of as 1/20 of a ream. However, the connotation is a small collection of sheets of paper of the same size and the same quality.