Collocations for "four"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "four" in context.
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four
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.cardinal
- the number four
- [section, part, page] four
- [turn to, on] page four
- the four of [spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds]
- there are four in total
- there [are, were] four of [us, them]
- four out of every [10, hundred]
- four in every [10] of (them)
- four or five (of them)
- three or four (of them)
- four plus [one] [equals, is, makes] [five]
- four [minus, take away] [two] [equals] [two]
- four [times, multiplied by] [two] [equals] [eight]
- [multiply, times, divide] it by four
- [picked, dealt, played, rolled, scored, put down, threw away] a four
- [need, require] another four
- no [more, fewer] than four
- [children, boys, girls] of four
- the clock struck four
- at the stroke of four
- [half, 20, ten] past four
- it [starts, finishes] at four
- we [met, left, set off] at four
- the [movie, game, lesson] starts at four
- (at) four in the [morning, evening]
- four [A.M., P.M., o'clock]
- there are four [missing, hurt, injured]
- [crawling, moving, shifting] on all fours
- drives a four-by-four
- four [minutes, days, years]
- four [minutes] [ago, later, after, previously, from now]
- (just) four more [minutes]
- four [miles, yards] (away)
- four [miles] from [home, the coast, the city center]
- is four years old
- just turned four years old
- four [brothers, sisters, cousins, grandchildren, children, people]
- four [aces, kings, queens]
- four of a kind
- four [times, tries, ways, attempts]
- the [bell, phone] rang four times
- in all four directions
- in the four corners of the [room, Earth]
- from [all, the] four corners of the globe
- four [walls, columns, pillars]
- stuck inside these (same) four walls
- four [seats, places, spaces, chairs] left
- [lost, put on, gained] four kilos
- [seats, sleeps, houses] four (people)
- (called me) four eyes
- four-minute [mile, silence, warning]
- a four-season [climate, tent, cabin]
- a four-poster bed
'four' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Dutch
- TV
- abroad
- abstract
- appetizer
- beat
- bed
- below
- bike
- bob
- bookcase
- car
- carton
- chalk
- chamber
- chapter
- clover
- college
- column
- command
- corner
- couch
- cub
- cycle
- debate
- decade
- defeat
- deputy
- draw
- dresser
- drum
- education
- element
- eleven
- ensemble
- entry
- estimate
- failed
- fifth
- five
- flask
- flight
- focused
- formation
- frozen
- gone
- grand
- granddaughter
- grandson
- happen