four number

1 4

2 four o'clock: I'll meet you just after four, okay?

3 a group of four people or things: The boxes were stacked in fours. | make up a four (=complete a group of 4 people): Will you make up a four for a game of cards?

—compare foursome

4 on all fours supporting your body with your hands and knees: Billy was down on all fours on the ice.

5 from the four corners of the earth/world from places or countries that are very far away from each other: People gathered from the four corners of the earth for the ecology convention.

6 four on the floor AmE if a car has four on the floor, it has four gears worked by a gear lever

7 a long narrow boat rowed in races by four people

8 a coach and four a carriage pulled by four horses

—see also: four ply ply 2, be scattered to the four winds scatter (3) — fourth number