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four
Translingual
Etymology
From English four
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fo.?] [sic]
Numeral
four
- Code word for the digit 4 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet
Synonyms
ITU/IMO code word kartefour
References
English
Etymology
From Middle English four, from Old English f?ower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedw?r, from previous pre-Grimm *petw?r, from Proto-Indo-European *k?etw?r, the neuter form of *k?etwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.
Pronunciation
- (UK)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fô, IPA(key): /f??/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /fo(?)?/
- (US)
- (General American) enPR: fôr, IPA(key): /f??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: f?r, IPA(key): /fo(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /fo?/
- (without horse–hoarse merger)
- (with horse–hoarse merger)
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /fo?/
- Rhymes: -???(r), -??(?)
- Homophones: fore, for (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Numeral
four
- A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
- There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.
- Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
- Describing a set or group with four elements.
Derived terms
Related terms
- fourth
Descendants
Translations
See also
- Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
- Last: three, 3
- Next: five, 5
Noun
four (countable and uncountable, plural fours)
- (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
- Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
- A person who is four years old.
- I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
- (cricket, countable) 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 bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
- (basketball, countable) A power forward.
- (rowing) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
- The shell itself.
- The crew rowing in a four boat.
- (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
- The shell itself.
- (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, IV:
- I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, IV:
Derived terms
- (numeral): rouf (back slang)
Translations
See also
Pages starting with “four”.
Anagrams
- furo, rouf, uORF
French
Etymology
From Old French forn, from Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *g??r?-nós, from *g??er- (“warm, hot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fu?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Noun
four m (plural fours)
- oven
- stove
- flop
Derived terms
- au four
- avoir une brioche au four
- enfourner
- être au four et au moulin
- four à micro-ondes
- gant de four
- noir comme dans un four
- petit four
Related terms
- fournaise
- fourneau
Further reading
- “four” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Istriot
Etymology
From Latin foris, foras. Compare Italian fuori, Friulian fûr, Dalmatian fure, Venetian fora.
Adverb
four
- out, outside
Preposition
four
- out, outside
Middle English
Alternative forms
- fore, feour, fower, fowwre, foure, fowr, vour
Etymology
From Old English fe?wer
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /?fø?w?r/
- IPA(key): /?f?ur/
Numeral
four
- four
Related terms
- ferthe
- fourtene
Descendants
- English: four
- Northumbrian: fower
- Scots: fower
- Yola: vower, vour, voure
Norman
Alternative forms
- fou (Jersey)
Etymology
From Old French forn, from Latin furnus.
Noun
four m (plural fours)
- (Guernsey) oven
Walloon
Noun
four m (plural fours)
- hay
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quadrumvirate
English
Etymology
From quadri- (“four”) + the second part of triumvirate (“rule by three men”). Cf. Latin quattuorvir?tus.
Noun
quadrumvirate (plural quadrumvirates)
- Synonym of quattuorvirate.
References
- "quadrumvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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