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{
"term": "four",
"partOfSpeech": "numbernounnounnoun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "4",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "There are only four cookies left."
},
{
"text": "four of Sweden’s top financial experts"
},
{
"text": "Ten people were invited but only four turned up."
},
{
"text": "Can you lend me four dollars?"
},
{
"text": "a four-month contract"
},
{
"text": "Look at page four."
},
{
"text": "Five and four is nine."
},
{
"text": "Three fours are twelve."
},
{
"text": "I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a four?"
},
{
"text": "The bulbs are planted in threes or fours *(= groups of three or four)*."
},
{
"text": "We moved to America when I was four *(= four years old)*."
},
{
"text": "Shall we meet at four *(= at four o'clock)*, then?"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a group of four people or things",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **make up a four** at tennis"
},
{
"text": "a coach and four *(= four horses)*"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a hit that scores four runs (= points)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a team of four people who row a long narrow boat in races; the boat that they row",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Sports: water sports"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "bent over with hands and knees on the ground",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We were crawling around on all fours."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used when you are talking about keeping something secret",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Don't let this go further than these four walls *(= Don't tell anyone else who is not in the room now)*."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fɔː(r)/",
"audio": "fo/four/four__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fɔːr/",
"audio": "fo/four/four__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}