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[foː]

noun 5num 2

Collocations

ADJ.

imperial, late, pregnant, sharp

She was four months pregnant when they told her about the job offer.

VERB + FOUR

am, asked, broke, consists, experience, found, got, lasted

The recipe consists of four simple ingredients that anyone can find at home.

FOUR + NOUN

children, clover, day's, days, equals, expertise, families, journey

My grandmother had four children who all grew up in the same small town.

PREP.

in, on, up, up, with

We managed to fit four people up in the attic during the game of hide-and-seek.

Definitions

num

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.

Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

Describing a set or group with four elements.

noun

The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.

Anything measuring four units, as length.

Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.

Four o'clock.

Letters to Sheffield are despatched every morning at six, and arrive every afternoon at ten minutes past four.

Frederick, I presume, at this late hour of four, may be snatching a morsel of dinner; […]

A person who is four years old.

I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.

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 bo

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Synonyms

noun — a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four

four-spot

noun — the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

adjective — being one more than three

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

four score and seven years ago

Used (sometimes sarcastically) to indicate that a past event being mentioned is particularly important: a long time ago; many years ago.

It was established four score and seven years ago, and since that time its activities have been intertwined with the internal development of the Nation itself.

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Four beings in Revelation 6:1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each embodied as a horseman riding a different-colored horse that represents a different aspect of the Apocalypse.

At the opening of the New Testament Book of Revelations, the end of the world is heralded by the four horsemen of the apocalypse, symbolising sickness, hunger, war and death.

four sheets to the wind

Extremely drunk.

1975 Tom Waits, "Spare Parts 1 (A Nocturnal Emission)," Nighthawks at the Diner, Asylum Records You see, it's a well known fact, you know / I'm four sheets to the wind, I'm glad yo

vanish to the four winds

To disappear; to cease to exist.

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There are four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.

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Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

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Redding’s study asked four psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria: […]

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Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.

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Letters to Sheffield are despatched every morning at six, and arrive every afternoon at ten minutes past four.

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Frederick, I presume, at this late hour of four, may be snatching a morsel of dinner; […]

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