Definition of 'four'
Word forms: plural fours
2. countable noun
4.
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four in British English
determiner
▶ Related prefixes: , quadri-, tetra-Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Word origin
Old English fēower; related to Old Frisian fiūwer, Old Norse fjōrir, Old High German fior, Latin quattuor, Greek tessares, Sanskrit caturWord Frequency
four in American English
adjective
1.
totaling one more than three
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ME < OE feower, akin to Ger vier, Goth fidwōr < IE base *kwetwor- > L quattuor, Welsh pedwarExamples of 'four' in a sentence
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four
- American English: four /ˈfɔr/
- Arabic: أَرْبَعَ
- Brazilian Portuguese: quatro
- Chinese: 四
- Croatian: četiri
- Czech: čtyři
- Danish: fire
- Dutch: vier
- European Spanish: cuatro
- Finnish: neljä
- French: quatre
- German: vier
- Greek: τέσσερα
- Italian: quattro
- Japanese: 四
- Korean: 4
- Norwegian: fire
- Polish: cztery
- European Portuguese: quatro
- Romanian: patruzeci
- Russian: четыре
- Latin American Spanish: cuatro
- Swedish: fyra
- Thai: สี่
- Turkish: dört
- Ukrainian: чотири
- Vietnamese: bốn
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