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单词 four
释义

four

See also: fore

Translingual

Signal flag for the digit 4

Etymology

From English four.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfoa][1]

Noun

four

  1. (international standards) NATO& ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the digit 4.
    Synonym: kartefour (ITU/IMO)

References

  1. Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status‎, 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, retrieved 23 January 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1

English

English numbers (edit)
40
 ←  345  → 
    Cardinal: four
    Ordinal: fourth
    Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary
    Adverbial: four times
    Multiplier: fourfold
    Latinate multiplier: quadruple
    Distributive: quadruply
    Collective: foursome
    Multiuse collective: quadruplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad
    Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera-
    Latinate collective prefix: quadri-
    Fractional: quarter, fourth
    Latinate fractional prefix: quadrant-
    Elemental: quadruplet
    Greek prefix: tetarto-
    Number of musicians: quartet
    Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad

Etymology

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 West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch and German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Armenian չորս (čʿors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).

Pronunciation

  • (UK)
    • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fô, IPA(key): /fɔː/
    • (Scotland) IPA(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
  • (US)
    • (General American) enPR: fôr, IPA(key): /fɔɹ/
    • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: fōr, IPA(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
    • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /foə/
    • Audio (US)(file)
      (without horse–hoarse merger)
    • Audio (US)(file)
      (with horse–hoarse merger)
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /foː/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA(key): /foʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
  • Homophones: fore, foure
  • Homophone: for (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
  • Homophone: faugh (in non-rhotic dialects with the horse-hoarse merger)
  • Homophones: foe, faux (in non-rhotic dialects with the dough-door merger)

Numeral

four

  1. 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.
    • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
      Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
  2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

Derived terms

Terms derived from four
  • all fours
  • all-fours
  • all-run four
  • back four
  • between you and me and these four walls
  • boundary four
  • clue by four
  • clue-by-four
  • coxless four
  • cul-de-four
  • figure four
  • finger-four
  • flat back four
  • four-acceleration
  • four-and-twenty
  • Four Ashes
  • four-bagger
  • four-ball
  • four-belt
  • four-by-four/4X4
  • four by two
  • four-by-two
  • four-color/four-colour
  • four color theorem
  • four corners
  • Four Crosses
  • four-current
  • four-cycle
  • four-dimensional
  • four-dimensionalism
  • four-door
  • four door house
  • four-eyed
  • four-eyed fish
  • four-eye principle
  • four eyes
  • four-eyes
  • four-fifths
  • four fingers
  • four-flush
  • four flush
  • four-flusher
  • fourfold
  • four-foot
  • four foot
  • fourfooted/four-footed
  • four-force
  • four-four time
  • four F's
  • four-half
  • four-handed
  • four horsemen
  • four hundred
  • four-in-hand
  • four L
  • Four Lane Ends
  • four-leaf
  • four-leaf clover
  • four-leafed clover
  • four-leaved clover
  • four-legged
  • four-legged friend
  • four-letter
  • four-letter word
  • four-lined wave
  • fourling
  • Four Marks
  • four-master
  • four-minute warning
  • four-momentum
  • Four Oaks
  • four o'clock
  • four-o'clock
  • four-o'clock flower
  • four o'clock flower
  • four-of-a-kind
  • four of a kind
  • four oh four
  • four one one
  • four on the floor
  • four-on-the-floor
  • four-peat
  • fourpence
  • fourpenny
  • four penny nail
  • four-penny nail
  • four pips
  • fourplex
  • four-point
  • four-point Calvinist
  • four-post bed
  • four-poster
  • four-pounder
  • four-quadrant
  • four-ring
  • fourscore
  • four score and seven years ago
  • four score and ten
  • four score seven years ago
  • four-seamer
  • four-seam fastball
  • four-sheet
  • four sheets in the wind
  • four sheets to the wind
  • Four Shire Stone
  • foursome
  • four-speed
  • four square
  • four-square
  • foursquare
  • four-stacker
  • four-star
  • four-string banjo
  • four-string guitar
  • four-stroke
  • four-stroke engine
  • four-stroking
  • fourth
  • four thieves' vinegar
  • four thousand
  • four-top
  • four-to-the-floor
  • four-track, four-tracked
  • four-tracking
  • four treasures of the study
  • four-twenty
  • four twenty
  • four-vector
  • four-velocity
  • four-wall
  • four-waller
  • four-walling
  • four-way
  • four-way cock
  • four-way switch
  • four-wheel
  • four-wheel drive, four-wheel-drive
  • four-wheeled
  • four-wheeler
  • four-wheeling
  • four winds hat
  • gang of four
  • grade four
  • last four
  • Mother Thumb and her four daughters
  • number four
  • on all fours
  • plus fours
  • rare as a four-leaf clover
  • rule of four
  • stretch four
  • ten-four
  • thirty-four
  • train-of-four
  • two by four
  • two-by-four
  • two-four
  • fourth

Descendants

  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: fuar, fua
  • Aukan: fo
  • Belizean Creole: foa, foar
  • Bislama: fo
  • Cameroon Pidgin: fo̱
  • Grenadian Creole English: fo
  • Gullah: fo
  • Krio: fo
  • Kriol: fo
  • Nigerian Pidgin: fo̱r
  • Pichinglis: fo
  • Pijin: foa
  • Saramaccan: fɔ́
  • Sranan Tongo: fo
  • Tok Pisin: foa
  • Torres Strait Creole: po

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)

  1. (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
  2. (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
    Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
  3. A person who is four years old.
    I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
  4. (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.
  5. (basketball, countable) A power forward.
  6. (rowing) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
    1. The shell itself.
      The team bought a new four last season.
    2. The crew rowing in a four boat.
      Our four won both races.
    3. (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
      We got third place in the varsity four.
  7. (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.

Derived terms

  • (numeral): rouf (back slang)

Translations

basketball: power forward — see power forward
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

See also

Pages starting with “four”.

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
acedeuce, twothreefourfivesixseven
eightninetenjack, knavequeenkingjoker
Symbols of number four in various numeral systems
  • Arabic numerals: 4
  • Chinese numerals: 肆, 四
  • Greek numerals: (uppercase) Δ΄, (lowercase) δ΄
  • Roman numerals: IV or IIII

Anagrams

  • Rufo, furo, rouf, rufo-, uORF

French

Etymology

From Old French forn, from Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr̥-nós, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fuʁ/
  • audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -uʁ

Noun

four m (plural fours)

  1. oven
  2. stove
  3. flop

Derived terms

  • au four
  • avoir une brioche au four
  • enfourner
  • être au four et au moulin
  • faire un four
  • four à micro-ondes
  • gant de four
  • noir comme dans un four
  • petit four
  • fournaise
  • fourneau

Further reading

  • “four”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin foris, foras. Compare Italian fuori, Friulian fûr, Dalmatian fure, Venetian fora.

Adverb

four

  1. out, outside

Preposition

four

  1. out, outside

Middle English

Middle English numbers (edit)
40
 ←  345  → 
    Cardinal: four
    Ordinal: ferthe

Alternative forms

  • fore, feour, fower, fowwre, foure, fowr, vour

Etymology

From Old English feōwer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔu̯r/, /fuːr/[1]
  • (early) IPA(key): /ˈføːwər/

Numeral

four

  1. four[2]
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 6:8, page 119r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
      ⁊ lo a pale hoꝛs .· and þe name was deþ to him þat ſat on hym and helle ſuede him / and power was ȝouen to him on foure partis of þe erþe .· to ſle with ſwerd / ⁊ wiþ hungur / ⁊ wiþ deþ / ⁊ wiþ beeſtis of þe erþe
      And lo! A pale horse, and the name was Death for who that sat on him, and hell trailed him. And power was given to him over four parts of the earth, to slay with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the earth's creatures.
  • ferthe
  • fourtene
  • fourty

Descendants

  • English: four
    • Northumbrian: fower
  • Scots: fower
  • Yola: vour, voure, vowre

References

  1. Jordan, Richard (1974),  Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum; 214)‎, The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., DOI:10.1515/9783110879414, § 109, page 128.
  2. “four, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Alternative forms

  • fou (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French forn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

four m (plural fours)

  1. (Guernsey) oven

Walloon

Noun

four m (plural fours)

  1. hay
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