People Number Fɔː(R Fɔːr Cookies Left Sweden’s Top

• 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?

four

1. 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?
2. a group of four people or things
• SEE ALSO Final Four
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/final-four
• to make up a four at tennis
• a coach and four (= four horses)
3. a hit that scores four runs (= points)
4. a team of four people who row a long narrow boat in races; the boat that they row
5. bent over with hands and knees on the ground
• We were crawling around on all fours.
6. 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).