Four (?), a. [OE. four, fower, feower, AS. feower; akin to OS. fiwar, D. & G. vier, OHG. fior, Icel. fjrir, Sw. fyra, Dan. fire, Goth. fidwr, Russ. chetuire, chetvero, W. pedwar, L. quatuor, Gr. , , , Skr. catur. 302. Cf. Farthing, Firkin, Forty, Cater four, Quater-cousin, Quatuor, Quire of paper, tetrarch.]
One more than three; twice two.
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Four, n.
1.
The sum of four units; four units or objects.
2.
A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv.
3.
Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four.
All fours. See All fours, in the Vocabulary.
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