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Four
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- 1 being one more than three wordnet
- 1 The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof. countable
- 2 a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips wordnet
- 3 Anything measuring four units, as length. countable
"Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller."
- 4 the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one wordnet
- 5 Four o'clock. countable, uncountable
"Letters to Sheffield are despatched every morning at six, and arrive every afternoon at ten minutes past four."
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- 6 A person who is four years old. countable, uncountable
"I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground."
- 7 An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead. countable
- 8 A power forward. countable
- 9 Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.; The shell itself. countable, uncountable
"The team bought a new four last season."
- 10 Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.; The crew rowing in a four boat. countable, uncountable
"Our four won both races."
- 11 Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.; A regatta event for four boats. colloquial, countable, uncountable
"We got third place in the varsity four."
- 12 A four-pennyworth of spirits. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house."
- 1 A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
"There are four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter."
- 2 Describing a set or group with four elements.
Etymology
PIE word *kʷetwóres From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre. Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Welsh pedwar, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).
PIE word *kʷetwóres From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre. Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Welsh pedwar, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).
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