Definition of four

"four" in the noun sense

1. four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet, foursome, Little Joe

the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

2. four-spot, four

a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips

"four" in the adjective sense

1. four, 4, iv

being one more than three

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Quotations for four

Four eyes see more than two. [ Proverb ]

When dinner has oppress'd one,
I think it is perhaps the gloomiest hour
Which turns up out of the sad twenty-four. [ Byron ]

He that deals in the world needs four sieves. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I usually take a two hour nap from one to four. [ Yogi Berra ]

Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. [ Sir John Denham ]

Count not four, except you have them in a wallet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To seek in a sheep five feet when there are but four. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. [ Proverb ]

Eggs will be in three bellies in four and twenty hours. [ Proverb ]

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity. [ Haliburton ]

He that has but four, and spends five, has no need of a purse. [ Proverb ]

I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells,
And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells! [ Samuel Lover ]

He that marries a wife and three children marries four thieves. [ Proverb ]

Cut the pizza in four pieces. I'm not hungry enough to eat eight. [ Yogi Berra ]

The hoof, in its four-footed galloping, shakes the crumbling plain. [ An onomatopoetic line from Virgil ]

Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. [ Napoleon I ]

A woman who is beautiful, good, rich, and wise, is four stories high. [ French Proverb ]

A horse stumbles that hath four legs. (What wonder then, if two stumble.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God keep me from four houses: a usurer's, a tavern, a spital, and a prison. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If I had given four-pence for that advice, I had bought it a groat too dear. [ Proverb ]

He's a blockhead that cannot make two verses, and he's a fool that makes four. [ Proverb ]

To speak, but say nothing, is for three people out of four to express all they think. [ O. Commettant ]

Of four things every man has more than he knows--of sins, and debts, and years, and foes. [ Persian Proverb ]

I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. [ Izaak Walton ]

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. [ Socrates ]

Cure oneself as far as possible of a trick common to almost every one, of using four or five adjectives before a noun. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Let them take one foot in your house, and they will soon have taken four (give them an inch and they will take an ell). [ La Fontaine ]

There is one penny saved in four, between buying in thy necessity, and when the markets and seasons are fittest for it. [ Lord Burleigh ]

How long a time lies in one little word! Four lagging winters and four wanton springs End in a word: such is the breath of kings. [ William Shakespeare ]

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. [ Pascal ]

Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four and twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind. [ De Finod ]

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. [ Napoleon I ]

He has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world, and the glories of a modern one. [ Longfellow ]

What people will say - in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere. [ Auerbach ]

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. This appears from the quarrels to which indiscreet reports occasionally give rise. [ Pascal ]

Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant? [ Colton ]

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

four in Scrabble®

The word four is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters four:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word four

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The 97 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In four

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four in Words With Friends™

The word four is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters four:

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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word four

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The 104 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In four

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Words within the letters of four

2 letter words in four (2 words)

3 letter words in four (4 words)

4 letter words in four (1 word)

four + 1 blank (4 words)

Word Growth involving four

Shorter words in four

our

Longer words containing four

fiftyfour

fortyfour

foureyed

fourfold

fourplex fourplexes

fourposter fourposters

fours fourscore

fours fourscorth

fours foursomes

fourteen fourteener fourteeners

fourteen fourteenfold

fourteen fourteens

fourteen fourteenth fourteenths

fourth fourthly

fourth fourths

fourth sixtyfourth

fourth twentyfourth

fourtyfour

fourwheeler fourwheelers

seventyfour

sixtyfour sixtyfourth

twentyfour twentyfourth