Definition of "four"

four

/fɔː/

numeral
1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
  Quotations
  Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
  1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers
2. Describing a set or group with four elements.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural fours
1. (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
2. (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
3. Four o'clock.
  Quotations
  Letters to Sheffield are despatched every morning at six, and arrive every afternoon at ten minutes past four.
  1828, Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9, Comprising a Directory of the Merchants, Bankers, Professional Gentleman [...] in the Counties of Cheshire, Cumberland [...]‎, London, Manchester: J. Pigot & Co., page 767
  Frederick, I presume, at this late hour of four, may be snatching a morsel of dinner; […]
  1865, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IX, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume VI, London: Chapman and Hall, […]
  The larger ships picked up the low lying atoll on their radar about four in the morning at distances from 16 to 26 miles.
  1972, George Carroll Dyer, chapter XVII, in The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner‎, volume 2, U.S. Marine Corps, page 657
4. A person who is four years old.
5. (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.
6. (basketball, countable) A power forward.
7. (rowing) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
  1. The shell itself.
  2. The crew rowing in a four boat.
  3. (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
8. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
  Quotations
  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, section IV

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