four /fɔː $ fɔːr/ BrE AmE number, noun
[Language: Old English; Origin: feower] 1. the number 4:
She is married with four children.
They arrived just after four (=four o'clock).
Luke will soon be four (=four years old). 2. on all fours supporting your body with your hands and knees:
He was down on all fours playing with the puppy. 3. in fours in groups of four people or things:
The boxes were stacked in fours. ⇨ ↑foursome 4. [countable] a hit in ↑cricket that scores four ↑runs because it goes over the edge of the playing area 5. [countable] a team of four people who row a racing boat, or the boat that they row 6. the four corners of the Earth/world literary places or countries that are very far away from each other:
People from the four corners of the world have come to Ontario to make it their home.
[fɔ͟ː(r)] ♦ fours
1) NUMFour is the number 4. Judith is married with four children.
2) N-COUNT In cricket, if a player hits a four, they score four runs by hitting the ball along the ground so that it crosses the boundary at the edge of the playing area. Taylor hit 13 fours and batted for 140 minutes.
3) N-COUNT A four is a narrow racing boat that is rowed by a team of four people.
4) PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR If you are on all fours, your knees, feet, and hands are on the ground. She crawled on all fours over to the window.
four /ˈfoɚ/ noun, plfours 1[count] : the number 4 2[count] : the fourth in a set or series • the four of hearts 3[noncount] : four o'clock • “What time is it?” “It's four.” • I leave each day at four.
- see also all fours
- fouradj • waiting for four hours
- fourpronoun • Four (of them) are broken.
