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four

Syllabification: (four)
Pronunciation: /fôr/

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Definition of four

number

  • equivalent to the product of two and two; one more than three, or six less than ten; 4:Francesca’s got four brothers it took four of them to lift it a four-bedroom house (Roman numeral: iv, IV, archaic iiii or IIII)
  • a group or unit of four people or things:the girls walked in pairs or fours
  • four years old:I began to teach myself to read at four
  • four o’clock:it’s half past four
  • a size of garment or other merchandise denoted by four.
  • a playing card or domino with four spots or pips.

Origin:

Old English fēower, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German vier, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin quattuor and Greek tessares

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