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