four
IPA: fˈɔr
noun
- (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
- Four o'clock.
- A person who is four years old.
- (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.
- (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
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Examples of "four" in Sentences
- Also three of the four wins were in the sprint.
- The young eaglet fledges after four or five months.
- The mothers wean their young at four to five months.
- The ascent took five days and included four bivouacs.
- He is the father of three and the grandfather of four.
- The anther is terminal, and contains four to six pollinia.
- Three of the four entries are dismissive of the controversy.
- In addition, four Landwehr and six Ersatz divisions were formed.
- He stood six feet three or four inches tall, thin, sallow, and stooped.
- This ankylosaurid had five toes on the forefoot and four on the hind foot.