four

CEFRA1

/foɹ/

number · numeral · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    number

    The number that is one more than three.

  2. 02

    number

    Extra detail

    Describing a set or group with four elements.

Examples

  • It will be four years before the definite result of beef liberalization emerges.

  • The design is based on four configurations of squares.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
3
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • [fɔː]

Deep Dive

number

Extra meaning

  1. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.

numeral

Extra meaning

  1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)

noun

Extra meaning

  1. Anything measuring four units, as length.

More examples

In context

  • I am four months pregnant.

  • Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.

  • I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.

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Origin

number

PIE word *kʷetwóres Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr Proto-Germanic *fedwōr Proto-West Germanic *feuwar Old English fēower Middle English four English four From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre. Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient G...