- number 4
- There are only four cookies left.
- four of Sweden’s top financial experts
- Ten people were invited but only four turned up.
- Can you lend me four dollars?
- a four-month contract
- Look at page four.
- Five and four is nine.
- Three fours are twelve.
- I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a four?
- The bulbs are planted in threes or fours (= groups of three or four).
- We moved to America when I was four (= four years old).
- Shall we meet at four (= at four o'clock), then?
- noun a group of four people or things
- to make up a four at tennis
- a coach and four (= four horses)
- noun (in cricket) a hit that scores four runs (= points)Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
- noun a team of four people who row a long narrow boat in races; the boat that they rowTopics Sports: water sportsc2
Idioms
See four in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee four in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishon all fours
- (of a person) bent over with hands and knees on the ground
- We were crawling around on all fours.
these four walls
- used when you are talking about keeping something secret
- Don't let this go further than these four walls (= Don't tell anyone else who is not in the room now).
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