Definition of four

four

bốn

/fɔː(r)//fɔːr/

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4

Example:
  • There are only four cookies left.
  • four of Sweden’s top financial experts
  • Ten people were invited but only four turned up.
  • Can you lend me four dollars?
  • a four-month contract
  • Look at page four.
  • Five and four is nine.
  • Three fours are twelve.
  • I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a four?
  • The bulbs are planted in threes or fours (= groups of three or four).
  • We moved to America when I was four (= four years old).
  • Shall we meet at four (= at four o'clock), then?

a group of four people or things

Example:
  • to make up a four at tennis
  • a coach and four (= four horses)

Related words and phrases

a hit that scores four runs (= points)

a team of four people who row a long narrow boat in races; the boat that they row

Idioms

on all fours
bent over with hands and knees on the ground
  • We were crawling around on all fours.
  • these four walls
    used when you are talking about keeping something secret
  • Don't let this go further than these four walls (= Don't tell anyone else who is not in the room now).