four
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
How often you will meet it
Rank 385 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 51,262 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.024% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one also: 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary
- a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips also: four-spot
adjective
- being one more than three also: 4, iv
four in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
-
Four better types of the Blue-grass and of the mountains it would be hard to find.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
-
It is, perhaps, the most critical single day of the four years' course at the University.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
-
There, just before her father's death, he and she had lived, for four delicious, miserable, momentous weeks.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
-
Four of them were lynched in New York, Ohio and Kansas; the remainder were murdered in the South.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
-
About four days out from Victoria we plunged into hot weather, and all the male passengers put on white linen clothes.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1