four

Meaning

Num

1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

Noun

1. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
2. Anything measuring four units, as length.
3. Four o'clock.
4. A person who is four years old.
5. 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.
6. A power forward.
7. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
8. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
9. (colloquial) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
10. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.

Concepts

four

fourth

4

quaternion

four-spot

number four

Little Joe

quatern

tetrad

quadruplet

quadri-

fore

several

four times

and

quad

iv

IV

foursome

quartet

quaternary

quaternity

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɔː/

Etymology

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, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).

Sentences

They finished fourth out of four teams .

Four sailors died instantly and another two were lost overboard .

When he was four weeks old , his family relocated to Vienna , Austria .

San Juan County borders Arizona , Colorado , and New Mexico at the Four Corners .

By observing these subjects , Johnson helped Masters identify the four stages of sexual response .

Krantz was married four times and divorced thrice .

The same four demons appear in the "Semiphoras and Schemhamforas".

The four regiments formed four battalions , retaining their previous names in the titles .