Definitions for fours

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fours four

Spelling: [fawr, fohr]

IPA: /fɔr, foʊr/

Fours is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in fours (forsu).

Definitions for fours

noun

1. a cardinal number, three plus one.
2. a symbol of this number, 4 or IV or IIII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with four pips.
5. fours, Jazz. alternate four-bar passages, as played in sequence by different soloists:
6. Automotive. an automobile powered by a four-cylinder engine. the engine itself.

Idioms

1. on all fours. all fours (def 3).

adjective

1. amounting to four in number.

Origin of fours

before 1000; Middle English four, fower, Old English fēower; cognate with Old High German fior (German vier), Gothic fidwor; akin to Latin quattuor, Greek tésseres (Attic téttares)

Examples for fours

There are four photos there of representative presidential candidates.

The injunction, she argued, only applies to these four plaintiffs—not to anyone else.

four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.

Of course you'll do it, and you could do it better if you had three or four times the stake you got.

Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.

Steered east for four miles, when we struck Mr. Gosse's cart-track.

A boat was got ready, and the captain got in, with four sailors to row.

Besides, he had four quarts left, for which he expected to find a ready sale.

After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

Mina, (plural Minæ)—four pounds, three shillings, four pence.